Room6@Sunnyhills

The Bears reading group have been working really hard to extend their skimming and scanning skills when reading. This week, we read the story called "Police Work" which is all about different people applying to be an undercover police person. We skimmed and scanned the applications to see what the important details were in each application. We then used the important details to help us make our own police job applications. What do you think? Can you see what the important details are from reading our applications?        

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.

On Monday, Room 6 used Math Talk Moves to get us thinking about all of the different strategies we know to solve Division. Miss Stuhlmann wrote 80/4 on the whiteboard and then gave us time to think about all the different ways we could solve the problem. When then took turns to share our strategies to the class and have a discussion about which ones we use the most and which ones we would like to learn. We came up with: - Equal sharing using skip counting - Halving and then halving again - Splitting factors - Reversibility (using multiplication instead) - Place Value - Short division Miss Stuhlmann also introduced us to Equal halving. Come and ask one of the room 6 students to explain how to use these strategies, we love to share our knowledge.

In room 6 for the last four weeks we have been using an amazing kit to help us develop our knowledge about Statistics and Measurement. We have researched what it takes to create a world record, created our own records and now we are testing and challenging them. While we are testing our records we are using lots of mathematical language, measuring things using the metric system, converting measurements, collecting data, organising data, analysing data and soon we will be presenting and displaying data. We are having so much fun working with friends and using our Sunnyhills GEMS to help us create our world records. Check out some of the photos from today!                

This week we have been working very hard to write descriptive pieces of writing about one thing we did in the summer holidays. Our aim was to capture 30 seconds in the most detail that we possibly could by including nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, similes, alliteration and onomatopoeia. Feel free to come in to room 6 and read our wonderful writing! Here are some of the completed pieces, aren't they great!