Friday 25 September 2015

Sunday 13 September 2015

How to add fractions with unlike denominators

This week the children have been learning to add fractions and they have made presentations in order to teach other children how to do it. Here's an example...


Zara and Cheyanne



Skiing Week 8

Wow! Last Monday was one of our best days yet. The children are making huge progress, not just with their skiing skills but with self confidence, resilience and lots of other skills and attitudes that are hard to measure, but no less important. 

Sunday 6 September 2015

Sylvia's Writing

 Life  cycle


Intro:Bees are amazing creatures because they make honey and without them we would not have honey, almonds, pumpkins or any fruits.

Eggs:First the drone bee mates with the Queen bee. The queen can lay about 2,000 rice like eggs a day! The drone bee only lives to mate with the queen bee, it has no other jobs!

Larvae:After three days the rice like egg will form into a larvae,the drone bee has a bigger cell then the female workers.Now the worker bees will make something called royal jelly,they will now start to feed the larvae the royal jelly.

Pupae:Eventually the larvae will grow into a pupae,the pupae looks like a fully formed adult but it isn’t yet,it is a creamy white,a bit like whipped cream but grayer.The worker bees still feed the growing bee royal jelly,the Pupae's cell gets covered with wax then the pupae eats itself out and it looks like a fully formed adult bee!

Adult bee: Now the bee is fully formed it cleans its cell out and goes to work. All of the bees work is programmed into its brain.

Conclusion: Bees are very good pollinators and they keep us alive because of the healthy food that they pollinate.

Simplifying Fractions

This week the children have been creating instructional movies and slideshows on simplifying fractions. In order to be able to do this they needed to be very familiar with the strategy so that they could teach other children.

Here's a few examples...

Summer and Elenoa's Slideshow

Zara and Cheyanne's Slideshow

Bridie and Eleni's Slideshow

Rocket Science with Mrs Gower

Max tests his air powered rocket!