Measurement Race

Teams combined to race their way around a measurement trail laid out around the school. Here's some of the students using their basic facts and measurement knowledge to work out the problems at each station:

We worked out that if we measured one weatherboard, and the weatherboards are all uniform height, then we could work out how high the hall wall is.

Finding the volume of an object was a new challenge. Ask us how we did this.

Here we are trying to find the area of the netball court, and also estimating distances between objects

How many litres of water did we need to fill this bucket?

To find out the circumference of the room 3 garden we knew we had to measure the diameter and then multiply that answer by pi

Could we find an average speed on our classmates over the same distance? 

We also had to learn to work collaboratively in groups to solve the problems

How could we find the area of our classroom door? 

Bugs Bugs Bugs

Bugs, bugs, bugs everywhere!

Believe it or not - this was our maths lesson today. We were learning to measure in different units and estimate the measurements we couldn't see (like weight).

First we created massive bugs. Then we named them and measured them in as many different ways as possible. Some of us were able to rename measurements in mm, cm and m!

Josh, Seth and Ollie create their bugs

Eva, Ella and Bella with massive bugs. Ella estimated how much her bug would weigh if it was this big in real life - she thought maybe 6-7kg's!

How many different ways could we measure them and with what units?

Kate was learning to convert centimetres into millimetres

Some bugs were curvy and harder to measure with straight rulers. We really had to think these ones through a bit more.

 Room 6 and Room 3 went to a soccer tournament at Carrington park in Carterton. They were about to face all the schools in the South Wairarapa! The first Gladdy game was a social game against St Teresa's and the results were 1- 0. Later on, the competitive team played against Greytown and lost 2-. After that game the social team played St Mary's and won 5 - 0. Then again the competitive lost 5 - 0 against Carterton. Finally the competitive team won against Pirinoa 1- 0. The Gladdy competitive team came 4th overall.

By Liam Quirke - Class Reporter

Playdough recipe for Spelling Homework

This is an easy recipe for playdough - children should be able to make this themselves as long as they are careful with the boiling water.

Ingredients
2 cups flour
1/2 cup salt
2 tablespoons cooking oil
2 tablespoons cream of tartar
2 cups boiling water
1 teaspoon food colouring

Mix all dry ingredients, add oil and boiling water with food colouring, mix well.

Store in an airtight container.

Spelling Homework suggestions

Here are some suggestions for ways you can practice your spelling words:

* Make some playdough. Roll the playdough into snakes and then form the snakes into the words from your list (this helps us 'see' what words look like)
* Make up two sentence rhymes with your words
eg. The cat from Spain
Flew an aeroplane (taken from My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes)
(this helps us to 'hear' what a word sounds like)
* Look each word up in a dictionary to find out what it means, then write it into a good sentence
(this helps us to know what a word means)

Some students may like to practise words by repeatedly writing them (rote learning) but not all students find this helpful. These are just a few other suggestions to help choose different ways of learning spelling homework.

Have fun! 

Hangi

Today Room 6 were raising money for a class camp and they decided to do a hangi for everyone who wanted to have it for dinner.

Room 3 went and watched for a while. They found out a lot of things, like:
* that it is good to use old railway tracks and dry rock to keep the heat for the food when you put it under the ground
* that it takes a long time to cook and if the rock is wet it could explode.

They said it was pretty hot if you got too close. The men that helped had to set up a hose like a sprinkler to cool off.

For the cooking to keep the steam and heat in for the food they had to put old sacks into water to keep the food moist.  When the fire was done and burnt down they got a shovel and took the pieces of wood out.

Later on today some people are getting a meal at 3:00...  YUMMY!!! ...

by Liam Quirke - reporter, week 4

Does anyone have good examples of sports equipment or clothing that has changed over the years? I'm going to bring in some of Johni's old rugby jersey's and a new All Black's jersey so we can see what has changed.

If you have any good examples it would be great if you could bring them to school so we could have a look.

Homework

Kia ora!

Thanks for coming to have a look at our new blog. I hope all of the Room 3 students have their homework completed and are ready to hand them in for marking tomorrow? Please remember to have your School Journal here too. Apologies to everyone for not getting the Spelling organised this week. It will be all ready to go again on Monday (Rahina).

Ask you child what the 'Ra' part of Rahina means...can they tell you?

Next week:
* Monday we will be checking in on the hangi that Room 6 are laying, during the day.
* Wednesday is the South Wairarapa School Football Tournament and we have been training hard for this.

Paper Airplanes

The other day we each made paper airplanes, the aim was to see whose could fly the furthest. We worked out what made them fly better and the measurements of the wing span, which we wrote down in our maths books.

If you throw a paper plane towards the wind, it would throw it back like a boomerang. We needed to make sure it's not too windy or rainy to fly paper planes.

A good paper plane was the one with the biggest wing span. This will help it to glide further, this is because the wind can get right under the wings and hold it up for longer. It also needs a flat nose, to help control flight. For example passenger airplanes have flatter noses than fighter jets, so they are easier to control.

In the end Foster's paper plane flew the furthest.

(This piece of writing was co-constructed by all of the students in Room 3)

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