Te Rōpū Tapaono (The Hexagon Group)

We have all been very busy solving + and - problems in a range of different ways. Check out what Te Rōpū Tapaono have been learning over the past few weeks:

We have been learning the following things:

Strategy:

Adding and subtracting in ones and tens (place value) e.g.

24 + 62 = ?

20 + 60 = 80 (add the tens together)

4 + 2 = 6 (add the ones together)

80 + 6 = 86 (add both sums together)

so 24 + 62 = 86

Rearranging numbers to find compatible numbers e.g.

70 + 20 + 20 + 30 + 80 =
70 + 30 = 100
20 + 80 = 100

We have 20 left therefore:

100 + 100 + 20 = 220

Subtracting in parts e.g.

24 - 7 = ?

24 - 4 = 20 (subtract back to a tidy number)

20 - 3 = 17 (subtract the remaining number - we had 3 left because we had taken 4 from 7)

so 24 - 7 = 17

Number Knowledge: 

- Know how many groups of 10 are in numbers up to 1000

- Say 100 before and 100 after for numbers up to 1000

- Practising our subtraction facts to 10 (so that we have instant recall)

Here are three of our group members showing us their tidy book work, what a great effort Jacob, Hannah E and Brooke!

Compound Sentences

WALT use conjunctions to join two simple sentences together. This is called a compound sentence! Ask us about our action/word combination we have made up to help us remember.

Today we worked in groups to identify the verb and subject in each simple sentence and then joined them together to make compound sentences.

Check us out!

Connor, Cody and Brooke wrote a really cool compound sentence that had the conjunction at the beginning. Clever cookies! The sentence isn't shown in the picture below but this is what it said:
As the mud stuck to his face, the boy laughed because it flew everywhere.

I am...

Here are two great examples of our 'I am' poetry from last week. Some of us are still publishing our poems. Everyone has done a fantastic job and we are all pretty confident at rhyming (especially with a little help from rhymezone!)

Tino pai Brooke rāua ko Te Amohanga! Great self-regulated learning!

Reading Rotations

This week we are focusing on learning what is expected of us during Reading time.

Today, we discussed ways to help us find a book that we will enjoy reading. We know that we can read the blurb at the back to find out some information about what is inside a book.

We also learnt the acronym EEKK that we will use when we are buddy reading from our group browsing boxes.

Check out some of our fantastic readers practising the correct behaviours when completing activities at these stations:

WALT make 10

For homework this week, we are learning to make 10 in as many ways as possible. Today we learnt how to play the game Make 10. So far, three cards is the largest number of cards used to make 10. I wonder who will beat the record by the end of the week?

Check out some of our mathematicians learning to play this fun and competitive number knowledge game: