Fractions are fun!

Check out the fun we had yesterday with lego and various bits of equipment. There were four stations around the class with a range of challenges for each group to tackle...

Show a half and a quarter in these two boxes. How could you check to see if you're accurate? The children started using a ruler, their eyes and some even thought to count them all out then halve and quarter them. 

A group working out how many lego lights would be shared evenly into each part of the base. There are 5 parts to the base, what fraction is each one?

This piece had 25 lights, then they had 20 and 30. Can you share the lights evenly by skip-counting?

This piece was divided into quarters. How can you share 10 pieces by skip counting? How can you share 16, 20 and 32? How many pieces are in one quarter? How many in 3/4's?

Finished...next challenge!

Eden and Sienna worked well together making sure they were accurately skip counting in 5's.

Matariki

We had two special visitors come to visit us yesterday, Whetu and Marama. Whetu is Bobby's Mum and Marama is his Nana.

They shared their knowledge and experiences around Matariki, specifically those from the Ngati Toa iwi. Whetu and Marama serenaded us with an original song from an aunty and Tirama Tirama. We received a koha from Bobby's whanau of fruit, pens and balls. The children of Rimu Rima took one piece home yesterday for afternoon tea and this morning we'll sit down and share another piece of kai. 

We can't wait to learn more about Matariki over the next week or two!

On you marks, get set, GO!

The Papakowhai School Cross Country was a lovely event. All the children put as much effort in as they could and ran right to the end. Well done Rimu Rima!

Mr Robinson giving the girls a chat about the race.

And they're off!

Go girls!

Almost there.

You can do it!

Running buddies.

And the boys are off!

Fabulous peer coaching along the way.

So much effort!

Look at how fast they are.

Go Charlie go!

Almost there Jesse :-)

Thanks to everyone who came and cheered us on.

Look at all that careful listening.

You did it!

Swimming Sports!

The photos are finally here! Have a look at us having a blast at the Year 2 & 3 Swimming Sports...

Ready to walk down to the bus.

See you there Rimu 3 & 4.

Rearing to go!

Some nice company along the way.

Great job everyone, you had fun!

Gold Medal!

We won our first medal of the year at this morning's mini Assembly.
We get together every Monday before morning tea for a brief chat about the week ahead and our social skills. Today Rimu Rima won GOLD! We sat so well listening carefully to Mr Smith and Mr Robinson. Well done class, I'm very proud.

This week in Maths....

We've been focussing on subtraction this week.

- taking away a single-digit number from any number between 5 and 20
- taking away a single-digit number from any number between 20 and 100

We've been using a number line, our fingers and some are even starting to partition (64-6, 64-4=60, 60-2=58)!

Matter Splatter

Today we started our new Inquiry unit. We're onto Science now with a unit called 'Matter Splatter'. Inquiry is the title for the old 'theme' or 'topic'. We started with a scavenger hunt to find the pictures below and then place them below the titles, solid, liquid or gas. Check out the photos as we progressed through the stages of the first, second and final decision.

Our first idea of where the items belong.

I then gave the children an opportunity to mention anything that they think could be moved. We discussed it as a class, letting the children do all the talking and then moved anything if necessary. 

Finally, just before we thought we were all in agreement, Ethan brought up the idea that some things were liquids before they became solid. We spoke about lego and the wrench. Ryan asked if we could change something...ice. It was a liquid as water however is now a solid.

We're looking forward to finding out more about how matter changes by doing some awesome experiments over the following couple of months!