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This Term, the Year 1 students have been building on their number and place value knowledge. They have been working in a variety of ways by experimenting with many forms of making and naming numbers through hands on and small group activities.
Students have used hands on materials to represent numbers and understand what they physically represent.
We have had a great start to Term 1 in 5/6 with all of the students settling into their new classrooms and routines well.
In literacy students have been building on their skills and abilities. In Reading, the students are focusing on making connections such as connections to problems in society and to themselves. In Writing, we are working on creating Narrative texts and ensuring we Show, Don’t Tell!
During Maths, the students have been completing problem solving activities related to real life situations. We have also been working on using appropriate mental strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems. Our Inquiry unit exploring ‘A Wild World’ has seen us learning about adaptations of animals and plants and why they have these adaptations.
‘Learning is a constant process of discovery – a process without end’ – Bruce Lee
This Term, the Grade 3 students have been developing their understanding on place value of 4 digit numbers. They have been completing problem solving tasks that require them to apply place value to model, partition, rearrange and regroup numbers.
The Grade 3’s created place value flowers, that they used to add and subtract from using a 4 digit number. They utilised a range of mental math strategies while completing their task. The students have also been creating number expanders and using place value arrows and MAB to rename 4 digit numbers.
Below are some pictures of the students’ learning tasks.
For the rest of the term on a Friday, Maths number sessions are being held inside the stadium for ‘Stadium Maths.’ This is being run with all of the Grade 4 students and teachers. The students have been given a list of maths number goals that they need to work through and achieve. These goals have been targeted to their learning needs. Throughout the Maths sessions, students will participate in at least one workshop run by the teachers. While students wait for their workshop, they rotate through a range of activities that are targeted to their maths goals.
Once students feel they have mastered a math goal, they will demonstrate their new skills to one of the Grade 4 teachers. The teacher will sign off the goals once the students have demonstrated their understanding. Last Friday was our first session of ‘Stadium Maths’ and we have received positive feedback from the students. They have exclaimed that they like having lots of choice on their activities, interacting with students from different groups, partnering up with different learning buddies and they enjoyed that their activities are game based.
Students have taken a photo of their goals on their iPads so that they can practise their goals at home as well.
This term in Mathematics, students have been developing their knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes. They are learning to name shapes and discuss their geometric properties. Last week, students were given the task to go on an exciting shape scavenger hunt around the school. Their goal was to find real life objects that represented 2D and 3D shapes. Once students located their shapes, they needed to identify the number of corners, faces, sides, edges and vertices they have. Students found many shapes in creative places around the school, including the playground and the new basketball courts. Below are some pictures from the hunt!
This term, The Grade 3 classes have been further learning about the concept of measurement and measuring the area of a shape. Students have been using familiar metric units and grid paper to calculate the area of shapes.
One of the fun activities students completed was creating their names using the grid paper and calculating the area of each letter and the total area their name covered.
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