A sneak peek at our work for open day.

Here are a few pictures of our work we are producing for open day next week.  We are very excited to show all our families our work.  Below us are our background Matariki stars.

Our Matariki kites starting to be made ready for our display. These are tricky as they take lots of patience.

More angles

After guessing each other's hand drawn angles, we checked to see how close our estimates were.  

We then began to understand that the total angles on a flat line had to add to 180 degrees.  By understanding this we could start to work out what angle was left on the other side.  Some of us used our number lines to work this out. A few of us later went on to work out the full 360 degrees.

Angles

Angles cont.... We then designed our own angle measure, working with fractions and equal partitioning. We could then begin to estimate very closely what angles were, using our 30, 45, 60 and 90 degrees angles. We worked these out using fractions. Below are pictures of the class working out each other's hand drawn angles on orange card.

Matariki enquiry continues

This post is a shared reading lesson room 11 completed last week.  

I went through the story before the lesson began and wrote the difficult words on orange pieces of paper.  The students got one each and they became the expert on this word by looking it up in a dictionary or using their prior knowledge. When we read the story, once we came to the difficult words the expert had their turn to tell the class what the word meant.

The below pictures are of the Sheena Cameron story pyramid template enlarged and done in pairs.  This re tells the story of Iratumoana and the Taniwha Tarakura. 

Using our 'Pacmans' to explore finding angles around the classroom, we then wanted to find out how to measure them.

What is an Angle?

This week room 11 started an inquiry  'what are angles' and 'where do we use them?' We then discussed with our partner, what angles are, then identified different angles around our classroom. 

The pictures below are of a quick brainstorm method to help 

get us focused. 

Cardboard rolls

Lorin made this amazing telescope by using a mixture of different sized cardboard/paper rolls. Please save any spares you have at home, then bring them to class so we can make more for our special project for open day.

Matariki by Lexus

Matariki enquiry continues in Room 11

We continued our Matariki enquiry this week.  Room 11 continued to expand on their first wondering questions, through engaging in higher level thinking.

First wonderings

We then separated questions into generic group types e.g. Shape, Age, Stories, Stars and Planets and Time.  The students then had to group our class questions into these categories.

This is Jaunte, guardian of this question hoop. Anyone with a question they thought fitted into this hoop had to justify its relevance to her.

Also here with Harlaquin, Liam is proposing his argument to include his question in this hoop.

Reuben, guardian of the age questions hoop.