Our 100 Day Party

On Tuesday we had been at school for 100 days this year! We celebrated this mile stone by doing things by the 100. Most children in the class brought along 100 objects. We found the quickest way to count 100 items is by putting them into groups of 10.

How many groups of 10 are there in 100?

Here we are with our 100 items:

Saydee found 100 magnets in our classroom

Sam has 100 lentils 

Ethan brought 100 toothpicks

Stephanie has 100 loom bands

Summer has 100 loom bands too

Madison also brought along 100 loom bands

Allie brought 100 pink buttons

Georgia found 100 blocks in our classroom

Charlee brought 100 pop corn kernels 

Myia brought 100 loom bands

Tom brought along 100 marshmallows. YUM!

Anouk brought 100 pieces of spiral pasta

Makayla brought along 100 pieces of lego

Jack brought 102 popsicle sticks 

He had two packs of sticks - how many were in each pack?

Olivia brought along 100 small stones

Isabelle brought along 100 rose petals

Josh brought along 100 pumpkin seeds

George brought 100 chocolate buttons YUM!

Kazia brought 100 pieces of nutrigrain

Brianah brought along 100 silver ball sprinkles

(These were tricky to count! She did well!)

Well done everyone on finding and bringing along your 100 items! 

We were given the task to estimate how far we could go in 100 steps from our classroom door. Some children thought 100 steps would get them to the school gate, others thought 100 steps would get them to the edge of the playground, some thought they might be able to get to the playground and back in 100 steps. When we tested it we found that most of us reached the middle of the ramp outside room 7 some children took ginormous steps and reached the edge of the tennis court! Great estimating!

Our Upcoming 100 Day Party

We have been counting the days since we started school this year. When we left school on Friday (the last day of term 2) we had reached 98 days at school. This means that the 100th day will fall on our second day back in term 3, Tuesday 22 July.

I have set a challenge for the children of Room 3...

I challenge you to each bring along 100 small items on Tuesday to share with the class.

I am reminding you of this now so that you have time to think about it before you return to school in term 3.

Here are some suggestions for what you could bring along:
- small stones
- buttons
- pasta
- leaves
- popcorn kernels
etc etc

I look forward to seeing your 100 items at our 100th Day Party! 

French Baguettes for Lunch!

This term our inquiry topic has been "Where do we belong?" 

We have been looking at our country, New Zealand, and comparing it with France. 

We learned that people in France love to eat fresh bread. Today we baked our own fresh bread.

Some children made baguette style breads and others twisted or plaited their dough.

Here we are enjoying our tasty freshly baked bread - just like the people of France!

A huge thank you from all of Room 3 to Toni and Kristin for their help today! We couldn't have done it without you! Thank you!

We Love Buddy Reading!

Here are the Sea Stars, Clownfish and Sea Jellies groups reading to their buddies, the turtles and sharks are playing their favourite literacy activities and on this particular day the dolphins were reading with one of our wonderful parent helpers. 

Check out our photos below!

The children must join three pieces together to make a silly sentence. 

Tom and Hunter's House

Tom and Hunter built a house with blocks and rods today at lunch time. The house is complete with a garden and wood pile. 

Very creative boys - well done! 

Our Fractions Feast

Our focus in maths is on fractions! We have been taking about equal parts or fair shares. When we cut a whole into halves, thirds, forths, fifths etc each part must be equal (the same!)

A big thanks to Toni (George's Mum) for her help during maths time today!

Fractions Quiz: (Write your answers down and check them)
1. How many equal parts will there be if I cut my banana into forths? What do we call one equal part?
2. How many equal parts will there be in thirds? What do we call one equal part?
3. If I cut a triangle shape in half how many equal parts will there be? What do we call one equal part?

Answers are at the bottom of the page

We began with cutting apples into equal parts...

We found that mandarins are already divided up. But they are not really in equal parts so they aren't a true fraction. Equal parts (fair cuts) are incredibly important in fractions!!

We cut each apple into eighths 

We are eating 1/8 each

We have 1/8 each (one eighth)

Yum!!

The bananas were trickier to cut into equal parts as they have a bendy shape and the ends come to a point.

The children noticed this and really grasped the idea that each part must be equal. Well done Room 3!

How are you getting on with finding fractions in your own house? They seem to be everywhere!

Quiz Answers:

1. There will be 4 equal parts. Each equal part is called 1/4  (one forth or one quarter)

2. There will be 3 equal parts. Each equal part is called 1/3 (one third)

3. There will be 2 equal parts. Each equal part is called 1/2 (one half)

Sandpit fun!

The Enviro Team has been busy and added more sand into the sandpit this week. The sand pit has been very popular among the Gore Main children. 

We have been reading The Twits by Roald Dahl in class and at lunch time today Charlee, Allie and Hunter created Mr and Mrs Twit in the sandpit!

Here is Mrs Twit: 

Meg (in room 2) and Georgia made a grasshoppers house: