Fertile Eggs

Another batch of babies have gone into the incubator! Today we put 41 eggs in, so in 21 days we hope to have lots of new chickens to get to know! Keep watching our blog as the days go past because we'll be sharing the stages of development with you.....

Maths Conversations

Today we worked individually to try and solve a problem. Then we shared our ideas in small groups before coming together as a class. We are learning to have conversations that are relevant to the task. We have a set of cards with sentence starters on them and we are only allowed to use those words to ask questions or offer an opinion. Below are some of the cards we are using.

Here is the problem we worked through. The children were awesome at sticking to the sentence starters on the cards and it definitely made a difference as to how focused everyone was. We'll be using these cards a lot more in an effort to keep our maths talk appropriate and accountable. Some great learning took place. Ask your child to explain the problem to you and see if you can use some of the sentence starters to engage them in a conversation. 

Number Detective

Stage: 2 

Follow the clues to find the mystery number from the list below.

• The number has two digits.
• Both of the digits are even.
• The digit in the tens place is greater that the digit in the ones place.
• The ones digit is not in the three times table.
• The tens digit is not double the ones digit.
• The sum of the two digits is a multiple of five.

High Diving Giraffes

Today we viewed the beginning of a video clip that showed some very life-like giraffes making their way up a spiraling ramp inside a large tiled complex. As a group we collaborated and wrote the beginning of the story, written from the point of view of an imaginary security guard.  This is what we came up with.....

I was quietly going about my daily job as a security guard at the Palace of Pools swimming complex, when I heard an unusual clip-clopping sound. The sound become louder and louder and got closer and closer. The strange noise sounded like animal hooves, but I felt confused because animals clearly don’t go swimming! What on earth could it be?  

I turned towards the huge row of camera screens on the wall behind me. My eyes nearly popped out of my head like popcorn bursting out of the pot!  On the screen that showed the lower hallway, I saw not one, but several gigantic giraffes casually strolling along the corridor!!

I watched with amazement as these gentle giants made their way up the spiraling ramp. They paused for a moment at the top. I wondered what they were going to do next…..

After writing the beginning together, we went away and wrote our own endings. Some of us worked in pairs and some of us on our own. We had to predict what we thought might happen in the video and turn it into a story. If you keep an out on our individual blogs over the next few days you'll see what we wrote. At this stage we're editing, proof reading and giving each other feedback.

We watched the whole video when we'd finished our drafts. Here's the video for those of you that would like to see it......