Shield Winners

Well done to our recent Room 5 shield winners Alex, Lucy and Selina.

Healthy Eating

We have been learning about healthy eating and a balanced diet. 

Shield Winner

Congratulations to this week's shield winner, Alex C. Well done.

Area Investigation

We imagined that Room 5 had been for a walk on a muddy day. How many pieces of newspaper would we need to be able to put all our shoes on them to dry?

We talked about how to make an estimate based on how many of us were in the class today and how big our shoes are. We decided that we needed to use the large sheets of newspaper and we would definitely need more than one. Then in our groups we tried to work it out.

"Should we have a girls sheet and a boys sheet?"

"Our shoes are big but we can fit on 8 pairs so we need to count in 8s"

We decided that we might need to have three sheets. So we tested it out with all our shoes to check.

Two sheets is enough!

Shield Winner

Congratulations to our latest shield winner, Simone. Well done.

Area

We are learning to use non-standard units to measure area. We drew around our hands and then used a variety of equipment to measure the area that our hands took up on the page.

 

 

Before we used each new item we had to estimate how many would fit on. We found it easier to estimate if we compared our hand to someone else who had already used the same thing or if we compared the answer for a similar sized object.

Calendar Art

Here is a picture of our wonderful calendar art. They look even better in real life. If you get chance come and check them out in the classroom.