Learning to read a grid

Yesterday and today we learned about reading grid coordinates with the wonderful work created by our student teachers.

In the activity we had to fill in the table and to show the positions of our Pokemon on the grid.
We loved the activity, we specially liked that it used our art.

Here is a video of us working hard at our maths.

We didn't get time to write our stories about the Pokemon on the grid and their positions but will be doing that early next term. We hope our student teacher might come and visit so they could help us and maybe even play a game of battle ship if they are not too busy.

Preposition Videos

On Tuesday we had an amazing time making movies using the preposition we have been learning from our wonderful student teachers.

We started out by watching the example which can be found on this site:



After watch the example all the children were excited to get going. They were given the option of making their video as an Explain Everything using photos and voice recordings (Which they do a lot) or making it using multiple short clips into a movie in iMovie.

Everyone loved making these movies. A group stayed in class with Mrs Carruthers while another group went outside with Mr Vogt. It was cool to see so many different creations.

Here are two examples:

Luisa
I like This maths because it was so much fun.


Samson
This is my work about preposition with our Pokémon.

Prepositional language

Today was the first day using the site created for us by our University of Auckland student teachers. This site focuses on position and orientation, today we looked at prepositions.

If you click the image below you will see the wonderful site they made:

We had so much fun using these awesome activities. Today we watched the introduction videos, played awesome Kahoot and did the first prepositions activity. 

Here is what the kids had to say:

Our first thoughts on the site:

Kahoot:

Prepositional language:


What a great time we had doing maths. We enjoyed the activities so much fun moving the objects around.

Using Explain Everything

This week John explained the basics of using Explain Everything.

Space Travel

Room 21 got inspired by the launch of Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon to the ISS and we decided to write our own stories about going to space.

Here they are:

Alivia

One day I went to the Astronaut place and I was an astronaut . We hopped into Space Shuttle and it was fun. then it was the Countdown 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.it took for 24 hours, then we were there. We Went into the space station. I see my cousins
Because they are Astronauts too. also we had to wear safe stuff. I have my cousins and I was floating and it was fun and we had to do
Exercise. we lived there and it was fun to live there.

Jaxson
One day I went to the international space station, when I stepped into the international space station, the whole area was almost white.I stepped into the rocket ship and sat on the seat, I waited for them to count from 10 to 0, when they got to 0 I hold on tight then the booster burst out flames for the rocket to burst straight through the blue sky.It took me a day to get to space, when a day came by I was in space,I felt the rocket shaking because the rocket was splitting, I floated out of the rocket, in space it was all black like it was night time, I saw the sun,moon and Saturn. I floated to the moon and landed on it, the moon had bumps so I had to float around it because if I float over it I might float more up and I get lost so I floated around it after I planted a flag and went to Saturn because if I went to the sun I will burn so I went to Saturn, when I got to Saturn I got to the edge to see the ring surrounding Saturn,after that I went back to the rocky and went back to the international space station.

Fire me out posters

Last week we made posters about ourselves and our blogs for maths. We used the data from our blogs to create questions and answer them. We then wrote maths problem so that others could figure out the answer.

Eve

This is the poster I made using maths problems to figure me out.


Oi'Oi

Planning our figure me out posters

Last week we made figure me out poster. Before we made our actual poster we had to make a plan and solve the problems ourselves.

We had to look closely at our blogs to find the answers to the question. Then we had to use addition, subtraction and multiplication ti write problems for others to solve.

This is Aliana's plan.
Figure me out!