Park and Walk Day

On Thursday, many of the Meerkats participated in the Travelwise Park and Walk Day. Many of us met at the park down the road and a few more met at the church, near the BP. We walked in a big group and even though it was raining we had a great walk together. We even got some hot chocolate for all of our work. Have a look at all the Meerkats who participated:

Hazelnut and Luna Arrive in New Zealand

The Marvellous Meerkats are taking part in the Travel Buddy Project started by PLC Sydney. A few days ago, they arrived here at Rowandale School. We're posting on their blog HERE (and you can find their blog on the sidebar), but I've copied the posts to our blog as well...

A few days ago, Hazelnut and Luna arrived in New Zealand and decided to visit us here at Rowandale School. They looked exhausted when they came to my door. It must have taken them ages to get all the way from Faraday School in England. They brought a book with them to tell us all about London.

All of the children were very excited to meet our new friends. We made sure that we sat and listened very carefully when they read their story to us.

Later, it was our day to take care of some of the animals that live at our school so we decided to bring the two of them to help us with our work. Our pigs are named Hettie and Percy (but our chickens don't have any names).

We're looking forward to having our two new friends visit us this week. It's Maori Language Week, so hopefully they will go to their next school knowing some new words!

Assembly and Certificates

Congratulations to William and Phoenix. William was the recipient of our class' certificate this week. Phoenix got the Duffy certificate and got to pick a book! We hope you enjoy reading that at home, Phoenix! Well done both of you!

Fractions

Yesterday we made some posters to show what fractions are. We had to match the words, the numbers and a picture of the fraction. We worked in groups and had to agree on our sorting. Here are three of our posters. We need your help to pick which one will go up on our wall. Fill out the form at the bottom of the post to choose. Don't forget your name!

Weekly Assembly and Certificates

Because of the holidays and the short week, we had our assembly early. Paris received the certificate for our class because she has been an amazing helped all week, making sure that the room is always tidy. Phoenix also had his name picked out for a Duffy Award. He was on the Superstar Rainbow in the last week and had his name in the draw.  Great work to both of you, and enjoy the book Phoenix!

Making Ten (Part I)

We started making our last number with the beans today (don't worry, we're going to do some more fun stuff next term with some numbers that are a bit bigger). Mr Davidson was at a meeting when we started but we were so clever and sensible that we were able to tell Mrs Johnson what we had to do and we got on with it straight away. Mr Davidson said that he was very pleased with us for that.

Making Nine (Part I)

Today we continue with our series of making numbers. We had 9 today. See the incredible work that the Parrots and Toucans did (we're even learning how to make the Pic Collage look nicer):

Making Eight (Part I)

Today the Parrots and Toucans continued our work on making numbers. We made eight in as many ways as we could. After practicing with six and seven, we're really getting the hang of it now. Have a look at all the amazing ways we could make eight. We worked together and we even shared between groups!

Quality Work

By Phoenix

By Asafo

Making 7 (Part I)

Today we worked in groups to see how many different ways we could make the number 7. Each group made a Pic Collage. Have a look at what we did. I wonder if the other groups will see this tonight and be ready to do the same thing tomorrow? Can you think of any ways that we missed?

Counting to 20

Today during our Maths Tumble, some of us had to sort out the numbers for Mr Davidson. He got them all mixed up. The first number we had to find was 1. And then 2. And we kept going until we got all the way up to 20. Have a look at us sorting them out: