Multiplication

As a way to understand multiplication and division, we have been grouping numbers in arrays, and also using arrays to solve division problems.  You can see more of these arrays on the Maths page.

The abacus made it easy to see the 10x table.

Maori lessons with Howick College

On Monday mornings, Howick College students come to Room 18 to teach us how to speak and sing in Te Reo and to help us learn more about Maori cultural.songs.  Everyone has been writing and reciting their own pepeha.  We all enjoy the action songs too.

Could this be . . . ?

Could this be a . . . sunflower? And if so, why is it wearing a Cockle Bay school uniform?

Reading our letters

It was interesting to read out letters sent from Year 3 students last year.  They gave us some tips to help us in the Weka Team and also told us of some of the awesome things we will be doing, like Weka Day Camp.  We will be writing similar letters at the end of term 4, to give to new year 3 students in 2020.

Harvesting our vegetables

Room 18 helps to look after the vegetables growing in the school's veggie garden by the Batey Block.  We usually do the weeding every Thursday afternoon, after the Weka Litter Patrol.  Finally, the broccoli, spring onions and cauliflowers were ready to pick.

Having sung the song, it was time to get into the cooking!  First we grated the cheese.

Then we made a cheese sauce.  We cut up the broccoli and cauliflower and boiled the vegetables for five minutes, before adding them to the sauce.

There was enough for everyone to have a tasting, some people even had seconds and thirds!

Rock Bottom Potato People

We read the book, 'Potato People' and then decided to make our own.

We drew paper patterns, and then cut them out of material.

We cut wool into the right lengths to make hair and beards.

We used pins for eyes and to attach the clothing.

There was a range of prehistoric fabric to choose from.

We used hot glue guns to stick on hair, eyebrows and mouths.

Here are all the potato people - you can see individual photos on the Visual Art page.

Playdough

Different people like to do different things before school - some people decided to make the white playdough . . . red and blue . . . and after a few days purple as well.

Hayden, Luke and Charlize start out with white playdough.

Casear used it to help him learn the alphabet sound - M for Minecraft.  We will also use playdough in spelling and in Maths to help us make fractions of shapes and sets of numbers.  Watch this space!