We love Maths! Multiplicative Thinking with Towers

We have been exploring equal sharing in Maths and thinking about questions like: 

Stacey bought a big bag of lollies, which she shared out into small bags.

Each small bag has 5 lollies. Stacey made 8 bags.

How many lollies were in the big bag?

If there were 80 lollies in the big bag, how many small bags could she make?

TOWER CHALLENGE

To help get our heads around "groups of", today we worked in pairs with two dice and some wooden cubes. One person rolled the number of towers and the other, the number of blocks in the tower/s. We had to make what we had rolled, write a Maths sentence about it, and them take a photo to show what we had done. Here are a few of our photos.

Sound of the week /j/

Jigsaw puzzle book, Johan, car jack, jam, Jack of diamonds, Joker, Jolly Roger's pirate ship

Making Orange Jelly

Aadhya reading the directions

Step 1: Empty the contents into a bowl or jug

Step 2: Add 500ml (2 cups) of nearly boiling water

Step 3: Stir until thoroughly dissolved

Step 4: Allow to cool

Step 5: Refrigerate until set

Jumping J likes to lend his sound to other letters!

Soft G /j/

Orange juice, germ, giraffe

dg and dge for /j/

Sounding out and blending words can be so much fun!

Fitness & phonics all in one!

The hoops were like sound buttons. We loved saying the sound next to the hoop as we jumped. Then as we jumped out of the last hoop, we had to blend all the sounds we had said to figure out the word.

Sound of the week /th/

Don't get tricked!

When we make the hard /th/ sound and the soft airy /th/ sound our tongue pokes out. We know not to get tricked by /f/! When we say /f/ our tongue stays inside our mouth and our top teeth are on our bottom lip. We made mouths with tongues that can be kept in and hidden or poked out to say /th/.

A book with /th/ in the back and a cloth

We made a bubble bath with words we found in our reading books and around the classroom. We did this as an independent activity as we found them over the day. 

Before writing a word on a bubble, the person who found it had to decide which sound the /th/ made. The dark blue bubbles say the hard (voiced) /th/ sound and the light blue bubbles say the soft (unvoiced) /th/ sound. 

As you can see the bath is overflowing. /th/ is very popular in words.

Term 3, Week 4 Memory Verse: Isaiah 41:10

Sound of the week /ou/

Ou, ou, ouch!

mouse, towel, flower

July's Calendar Challenge

                   Humpback Whale

Sera told us in her Calendar Challenge that humpback whales grow between 12 and 16 metres, so we thought we would measure 16m to see how long that really is.

We estimated how long 16m is.

We measured 16m with metre rulers. Sebastian is standing on zero. After that each of us represents one metre. We couldn't believe how long a humpback whale can get when we looked at the photo! A humpback whale grows to over half a netball court!

Sound of the Week: qu

                               

                          queen, quack, quilt