Week 5

This week for maths we have been learning about symmetry. We are learning about this because our focus is Matariki and we are going to be making Manu Tukutuku (Māori kites) to celebrate the Māori new year.

We have been reading about Matariki in our reading groups and watching some short video clips too.

Today we looked at reflection and rotation by drawing our own designs using Symmetry Artist, it was so much fun!

This term we have been looking closely at how to write a report. Today we started writing our very own report. We had to collect information about an animal in our reading groups (Miss Osborn gave each group a School Journal that had information about our animals).

We were lucky enough to have two fun-filled days with Mrs Davis last week and we made our very own Newspaper called 'The Memory Times' - Miss Osborn cannot wait to read our memories. Well done to everyone, especially Maddison and Jake who received a RERE award for their efforts.

Te Rōpū Tapatoru

Today Miss Osborn was so impressed with the Tapatoru group. They were learning to solve multiplication problems using repeated addition. We also looked at reversing problems.

For example:

4 x 3 is the same as 3 x 4

so

4 + 4 + 4 is the same as 3 + 3 + 3 + 3

They were super clever and did a great job! Check out some photos of us working hard today.