Room6@Sunnyhills

Last week on Friday, we explored creating art with pastels. We blended a multitude of colours to make the background and then we cover it completely with black pastel. After that, we scratched off the black pastel to make wonderful and eye catching designs.  What do you think of our designs?

We are so excited to be working on our cultural cushions to display during week 9. We have done a lot of research into cultural patterns and good luck symbols from around the world. We also worked on our sketching skills designing what our cushions will look like when we are finished. We are learning how to sew to be able to make our cushions. The basic stitches that we have learnt are; back stitch, cross stitch, running stitch, blanket stitch and whip stitch. We will definitely be able to help with sewing buttons onto shirts after this! Check out some of the cushions we are working on.        

The Rectangles math group has begun to learn how to use long division to solve division problems. We worked on the mat today and discussed how we can make dividing as easy as possible. We know that the first step is to be able to take away the biggest tidy chunk by using our multiplication facts. After that, we know that we can keep doing this until we get to a number that is in our basic facts knowledge. We also know that we need to record how many times the number we are dividing by goes into the number under the division symbol on top of the division symbol. Check out our awesome working out.

This week we have started looking at 2D shapes. We have been learning new shapes, discussing the angles within them and using some geometrical language to talk about them. Then, to apply our new knowledge, we have started to create shape comics! Check out how we are going.

Room 6 is a class filled with students who all work hard to live with Mana and display the Mana GEM. We strive to make positive contributions to class, group and play time discussions, we represent Sunnyhills with pride when we use our manners and wear our uniform correctly, we always celebrate our own and each others achievements no matter how small and we always endeavor to do our best in everything we do.  Today we were excited to celebrate Pasindu's success in modelling these values of the Mana gem and last whole school assembly we were very proud of Brodie and celebrated her success in displaying this too!

This morning Mrs Madden email the Sunnyhills teachers a mathematical challenge to try with our students. At first, we though the answer was straight forward but after calculating and re-calculating we realised it would not be as easy as we thought.  We pulled out lots of materials (plastic cubes, blocks, counters and tens blocks) to help us try to understand and solve this challenge. After much brainpower and with the help of our classmates (and teacher) we managed to solve the challenge. So now, WE CHALLENGE YOU! See if you are able to find the numbers to go in each square and comment your answers below. We will let you know if you are right or if you need to try again.