Thursday, March 23, 2017

In Room 8 we have been looking at how we can 'show not tell' in our writing to paint a picture in the readers mind.

We watched a story starter written by a New Zealander called Greg Broadmore who is a Weta Workshop Artist.





After watching the video we each finished the story ourselves...remembering to try and show not tell.








Friday, March 10, 2017

Problem Solving Maths

On Friday in room 8 we do problem solving maths.
When we do this we are learning to work together to solve problems. This can be hard but we are flexible and reflective learners who are trying to be better than before.

This was today's problem...


Cubes in my pocket
Plane partitionI have some cubes in my pocket.

I noticed that when I shared the cubes into two equal groups there was one left over.
When I shared them into three equal groups there were two left over?
How many cubes might I have in my pocket? What range of possibilities might there be?


We had to discuss the problem

We had to test our theories with materials at times

We challenged others' ideas

We had to ask others to explain their thinking to us