Technology Challenge

Last Thursday, when the Masterton Exchange was on, we stopped electives for that week. So instead we had a quick tech challenge. The class had to make the longest bridge that they could using the materials provided. The winning group stretched 92 cm using paper pipes and a strut in the middle. This was the only bridge to hold the weight of the tissue box without it falling off of the bridge collapsing.

More times tables!

The times tables are almost finished. We have moved on to fractions decimals and percentages in class but the last few times tables videos have just completed the editing stage. Here they are.

Do you know your 7 x tables?

Here is a video of the 7 x tables.

Maths class 4x tables

Here are the members of Room 2 that come through to us for maths and the 4x tables that they made a song about.

Eye balls.

Today we started making plaster eyeballs in class as a bit of an art excercise.  Not everyone got to make them today but the rest will on Monday. We still need to do more sanding and painting. Here are some pics of the he class at work.

All of the messy equipment we were using.

The plaster is in the balloons. Some of the class stayed in at lunch to make extra ones.

Taking the balloon casing off after they have set. The class was amazed at the heat produced by the plaster as it was setting

Time to sand the bottom of them so they are flat.

More sanding

It feels so smooth on my face!

I've got my eye on you (sorry bad jokes are a necessity in the class)

Next week we will finish making the last 8 or 9 we need to do and the children will begin painting them so that they look like eyeballs. We will then varnish them so they have a bit of a glossy look.

8 times tables

We've been working on multiplication and division over the past 4 weeks. To help the class learn their times tables we made some raps and songs about them. Here is the 8 times tables by Reid, Josef, Matt and Oliver.
I had this song in my head all weekend (It sure beats having Bob the Builder or Barney)