Maths practice

Click on these links to practice your times tables!!!! :)

http://www.mathsisfun.com/timestable.html


http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/


Click here to practice adding and subtracting!! :)

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/numberskills.html

Onomatopoeia

We learnt about Onomatopeia... words that look like they sound!!!

Cutting flax with Mrs Anderson

Mrs Anderson talked to us about how to cut flax. We had to say a karakia before we cut the flax to bless the flax. Then Mrs Anderson showed what flax to cut and what flax not to cut. We only cut the outside of the family (grandparents and the parents). We can't cut the baby flax because they need to grow. We also were showed how to cut the flax on an angle so the rain can drip off it.

We took the flax back to class and plaited it to make flax ropes.

We used the flax ropes to act out the legend of How Maui slowed the sun.

camp week

Our camp week was so fun because we all like going to beaches and camping over night . We all had fun !!!

Our Middle Syndicate Amazing Camp!!!!

camp week

Maui and the sun

For our topic we are studying solar energy.
We read the legend of Maui and the sun.
We also listened to this legend retold in maori.

Solar Energy

Which colour absorbs the most heat?

This is our colour experiment. We wanted to find out which colour absorbs the most heat?

We wrapped 3 chocolate biscuits in whit, red and black paper. We put them in the sun.

The black paper melted the chocolate chips, the red paper warmed the biscuit and the white paper didn't warm the biscuit.

So.... black absorbs the most heat!!!!

Working as a team!!

We had to line up in order of height without talking!!

To achieve this we had to work as a team and use facial expressions and gestures.

Shadows Experiment

Our pre-ideas..... about shadows.

Listen to Ella, Trinity and Alannah talk about their shadows experiment.

PS - turn your volume up loud so you can hear us!! :)

We learnt that our shadows moved because the sun was moving.

Our shadows started off long and then got shorter and shorter. They also moved to the left.

The higher the sun in the sky the shorter the shadow.