Testing Week!

This week we are having our end of year tests in Maths and Reading.

In Reading we read out loud to check our fluency and answer some oral comprehension questions. We also did a written reading test today.

The Maths test will be later this week.

Maths Groups

We have been doing new maths groups over the last few weeks.

We are learning to:

Use mental strategies in addition and subtraction

Each group does something different each day.

We do:

mathletics
games
worksheets
whiteboards

We work:

in groups
individually
in pairs

We:

practise
test
think
talk
share

We think Maths is

fun
tricky
easy
thinking
asking questions
finding solutions
to be shared
fun (or have we said that already?)

1000 Clicks!

Last week in Maths we investigated “Length” by using the trundle wheels.

Our trundle wheels “click” every time you have travelled one metre. We wanted to find out how many lengths of the playground would equal one kilometre.

We worked in groups of two or three – one person pushing the trundle wheel and the others counting and recording clicks and laps. It took us quite a long time to walk the kilometre and sometimes it was difficult to keep counting and recording 🙄

Eventually everyone completed the distance and we tallied our results. Unfortunately the results differed quite a bit – with the number of laps required to reach one kilometre being between 25 – 35!

This task helped us

realise how far a kilometre is
work co-operatively
find out that experiments need to be done carefully
practice our tallying, counting and problem-solving

Here are some photos of us working 🙂

PS Can you work out why this post is titled “1000 clicks”?

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Tangling with Triangles

We have been working with Mr Halliwell in Maths – exploring triangles. We:

make them,

cut them,

draw them,

fold them,

tear them up,

measure length of sides,

measure angles and

make very clever generalisations about what we find out!

We UNITE – we work, share and learn together.

Great work AllStars 😀

Measuring

Here we are measuring areas and perimeter in our playground.

We used trundle wheels to work out the perimeter of various parts of the playground, and a square metre (made out of newspaper) to work out the area of other parts of the playground.

The newspaper metre square really helped us to visualise the areas we found.

Angles Homework

If you need help measuring the angles for your homework – here is the site we used today:

Just click on the icon to take you to the site!

Angles Everywhere!

Most of us hadn’t realised how important angles were before we spent the morning looking for them around the school.

We found angles everywhere and in some very interesting places.
The hardest angles to find were the reflex angles and the revolution.

Test yourself with this angles activity!

Most of us were surprised that so many aspects of buildings depended on angles – such as supports and roofs; and that nature provided really interesting exaples like shadows and tree branches.

Hmmmmm we will be keeping an eye out for some more extraordinary angles around the place 🙂

World Maths Day

We took part in World Maths Day last week and competed against students from all around the world. We had to recall basic maths operations as quickly as we could to get the most answers correct in the least amount of time – some found it tricky, but it got easier the more you did it!

We also had fun working on some “string art” drawings in our books. We had to follow the instructions carefully and take care with our ruling of the straight lines. The patterns and designs we made were pretty and we think they are clever too!

Test, Testing, Tested!

We have been offline for a while as we have been really busy preparing for our national tests.

These were held last week – on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We had tests in English – Reading, Writing, Language Conventions; and Maths.

Even though everyone tried their hardest, It was a great feeling when they were over 🙂

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