Thrilling Math

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning a new way to help us with our maths. We got into groups of four and we were given sixteen cards and we had to share out the cards evenly amongst ourselves. These are the rules we had to follow no talking, no non- verbal signals and no taking anyone else’s cards. On the cards that we had were numbers, dots, tiles, words and shapes. For an example if you have a triangle, a piece of paper with three dots, the number three and a piece of paper with three tiles shaded in you will have a match and you are done.We were learning to identify different patterns and work together to help solve each others problems. I really enjoyed doing this maths because it is a lot of fun but the thing I didn’t enjoy was that it was really hard because we couldn’t talk to each other or communicate. Have you learnt any new maths this term?

Terrific Tips On How To Stay Safe On A Boat

Terrific Tips On How To Stay Safe On A Boat This week in Te Ngahere we got a visit form a lady called Tracy. We learnt about how to be safe in the summer time around water. These were the five things that she told us about when being safe on a boat , one check the weather, two Wear life jackets, three tell someone, four put your safety first and five have a waterproof phone or radio. From what i've learnt I will make sure that I talk to my family about buying flares because that was the only thing that we don’t have on our boat.What was interesting to me was flares and all the different types of them.Are you boat safe?

Our 99 cm freestanding newspaper tower

In Te Ngahere for the first day back at school we did a STEAM challenge. We were learning to make a free standing object with limited materials. For this STEAM challenge we were only allowed to use 2 sheets of newspaper and 30 cm of tape. What made it even harder was that we only had 20 minutes to create our tower. At the end of the 20 minutes, the teacher measured all the towers and ours came out to be 99cm. In the process of measuring we learnt that the wider the base is the more stable it will be.The winning group was Zhynaliyah and Emma's tower that reached 1.18 meters. What worked well was when we first made our structure, it wasn’t as balanced as we hoped so we put a little more tape on the base of the tower to make it stable. One thing that we found hard was having to move our tower from one place to another without causing any damage to it. Have you done a STEAM challenge before?