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8 November 2016

Awesome arrays in our environment

The children used construction equipment to demonstrate their knowledge of arrays. The two children above quickly identified that their building showed 3x4=12, 4x3=12, 3+3+3+3=12, 4+4+4=12 using their knowledge of commutativity. Tomorrow we will extend our knowledge of multiplication and introduce…

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8 November 2016

Thesaurus thoughts

To support our traditional story planning based upon the story of the frog and the scorpion, the children have been asked to up level their adjective choices through the use of a thesaurus to really show their flair for writing through the use of expanded noun phrases.

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7 November 2016

Multiplication Madness

This weeks maths learning challenges are all based upon multiplication facts using primarily our twos, fives and tens before extending to using our threes. This is a tricky objective to achieve and any further work on recall of multiples that you can do at home or on the way to school would be…

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7 November 2016

Mega Maths Celebrations

Well done to this weeks challengers :- Oliver H, Sienna, Taleah, Oliver T, Ruby, Kody, Isaac and Isla who are all a step closer to their certificates. Keep up the monster effort!

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7 November 2016

Scientific Investigators

Today the children were set the challenge to identify the most absorbent material through their scientific observational skills. The children had to think scientifically and work as part of a team using appropriate scientific terminology to describe their findings.

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4 November 2016

All Wrapped Up

Preparation for our wrapping paper design.

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