Weeks 4 & 5 in MR Class

What’s been happening in maths?

We have been doing lots of statistics in maths. We looked at how many different vowels were in our first and last names. These are some of the things that we noticed:

We also did an activity where we found out which was the most common food in our lunch box. We enjoyed looking in our lunch boxes and seeing all the different kinds of food. We then did some writing about what we had found out.

We have also been doing place value. We have been making numbers with the place value blocks and seeing how many ones, tens and hundreds are in each number.

Blends

We have had a big focus on blends lately. This week we were looking at CR, DR, FR, GR. Check out some of our blend activities:

Writing

On Thursday we got to make rockets! 

We had to:

1.       Colour in the rocket,

2.       Glue the outline of the rocket

3.       Put the straw at the bottom of the rocket

4.       Fold the paper in half

5.       Cut around the outline of the rocket

6.       Blow on the straw

7.       BLAST OFF!

We all stood in a line and got to watch our rockets fly. We then did some fabulous writing and tried to use some interesting words.

Maori

This week we started to learn our Maori numbers. We practised how to count to ten in Maori and got to do several different activities to help us learn.

Handwriting

Most of the time we do our handwriting in our books but some of the time MR Class likes to use the iPads to practise their handwriting. This is a cool app that shows us how to form our letters properly: