MATHS HOME ACTIVITY: How much can a container take?

How do you know which container has the greater capacity?

We fill it with a material (such as water, sand, cotton balls, rice, beans, marbles or beads etc), count how many it took to fill then repeat using another container. Finally we compare how much of the measuring material it took to fill the containers.

Which two containers can you measure at your house?
What material would you use to measure and compare the capacity?

Have a go at measuring and share your results in the comments section below.

Primary Assembly Tuesday 28 June, 2016

Tomorrow afternoon, at 2pm, we will be holding a Primary Assembly. This is a lovely opportunity to celebrate the hard work the children have put in throughout the term.

In KC, some children have received their Bronze Award and are working towards their Silver Award, whilst others will be receiving their Silver Award during tomorrow's Assembly. All children are working towards individual goals.

If your child brought home an invitation to attend a movie and popcorn afternoon this Thursday, she/he will be receiving a Silver Award during the Assembly.

The children are very excited and it would be lovely to have a family member attend, if it is possible.

Friday Fun

Working and learning together!

Congratulations KC!!

KC has done some amazing work this week. I'm so proud of all of the children!!

Congratulations to Nash, Isabella and Olivia on receiving your awards today. 

What is 'Capacity'?

Today we had some fun measuring the capacity of different containers using water, sand and rice. Our goal was to find the containers with the greatest capacity. We did this in several steps. 

First we measured our base container (an unused lunch box) by counting the number of scoops it took to fill:

Next, we compared the capacity of the lunch box with the capacity of other containers by pouring the water, sand or rice from one container to the next. Benita told us that if the container we were pouring our sand, water or rice into was smaller than the lunch box it would overflow. 

Lastly, we counted the number of scoops it takes to fill the containers. Isabella told us that the container with the largest capacity is the one that took the most scoops to fill. 

Patterns

We have started working with patterns. Our goal is to create and continue patterns that are made up of 3 or 4 elements. We've used words, body percussion, shapes and blocks. Here is a glimps at some of our work. 

These children have made a progressive pattern. 

MATHS HOME ACTIVITY: Creating and Continuing Patterns

What can you use at your house to make and continue a pattern?
Could you use 3 or 4 different coloured lego blocks? Maybe you could find a 2 or 3 different leaves.
You could use pegs, pasta, fruit, pencils or textas.

Make a pattern that has 3 or 4 elements to it, then continue that pattern.

Tell us all about what you made in the comments section below.
I wonder if you could attach a photo of what you did....

Halving

This week we completed a unit on fractions. Our goal was to be able to identify and create halves, as well as identify items that have not been divided into two equal parts. I believe we have well and truly achieved our goal. Her is some of the evidence in support of my opinion:

Cutting play dough shapes in half

Using geoboards to make shapes then splitting those shapes in half with another rubber band. 

The children worked with a partner to plan a picnic. To make it fair, each item on the picnic rug was cut in half. 

These girls explained that they had drawn 3 lollipops but found sharing 3 lollipops with 2 people difficult. They decided to cut each lollipop in half so that each person would get 3 pieces of lolly!

How many ways can you fold a square piece of paper in half?

Congratulations KC

Congratulations to Sophie, Adrian and Caterina on receiving your awards today. I am very proud of you!!

The humble rubber band

Don't be surprised if your daughter or son asks you for a rubber band. 

For some time now we have been working on stretching words that are made up of two or three sounds and listening for the sounds in them. Then we write the words on whiteboards. 

Lately we have started using rubber bands to help us stretch the words. With each sound we stretch the rubber band a little further. When we blend the sounds, that is put them together to make the word, we bring our hands back together and the rubber band contracts. The rubber band adds a tactile element to stretching words. 

A different take on an old game

We all know how important it is to practice our sight words. It can be quite laborious revising the same words over and over, so I am constantly looking for new and fun word work activities. 

Today I taught the children how to play tic-tac-toe (or noughts and crosses) using sight words. They we so engaged and loved practicing the sight words they are working on learning. It is definitely an activity we will do again and one that can be done at home.