Principals Awards!

Friday was a pretty special day in Room 2, Harley, Louis and Mrs C's daughter Chloe were all awarded Principal's awards.  They were all pretty proud of themselves, just as we were all proud of them.

Here are some photos of the special occasion:

Determination with near Doubles in Room 2

Our stage 4 groups have been learning how to use doubles (2+2, 4+4) to solve a problem involving near doubles (6+7, 8+9).  Here are some photos of these mathematicians working so hard to use this strategy, can you see what they have done to work it out?

Did you spot their method?  If not, you will have to ask one of these experts how you solve a number problem involving near doubles.

Logan Loving Maths

Logan has been learning how to solve problems in maths using facts that he already knows. Here is a video of Logan using this strategy to solve a maths problem where he can see a near double. Watch what he does...

Soaring into Stage 4

Today Mrs C tested Iose, Louis, Mafi, Harley and Niah...they have become so clever at using the strategies that Mrs C has taught them that they have moved up a whole stage level.

These whizz kids are proficient at using counting on and back to solve number stories.  Mrs C was so happy with their testing that she wanted to burst out into cartwheels across the classroom.

Check out these clever cats!

Logan's Space Inquiry

Malachi's Super Space Inquiry

Wickedly Wonderful Writing!

In writing this week we have been learning about

• Metaphors
• Alliteration
• Similes
• Personification

We used this video clip as our motivation for writing:

Mrs C chose a particular part of the clip and brainstormed examples of each language feature around it:

Can you see all of our great examples?

Today Mrs C set us a task on the Chromebooks (yes we have Chromebooks now and we love them), we could work with a buddy and we had to come up with our own examples of each language feature for a different part of the film

Here are photos of us hard at work today in literacy...