Room6@Sunnyhills

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.

As part of our inquiry topic Turangawaewae, we are going to be creating pieces of art that represent ourselves. We will sketch the outline of our heads and shoulders, then fill the inside of our profile with pictures and words of things that are important to us and make us who we are, finally we are going to add colour in the form of dye. It will look fantastic. Today we watched an amazing tutorial on how to sketch an eye and then practiced some of the techniques that we saw. This will help us when we start to sketch the outlines of our heads and shoulders and when we sketch all of the wonderful things inside. What do you think of our eyes?     

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!  

We have been discussing all of the different ways we can solve 32-19. It was great to see so many strategies and then decide which ones would be the most efficient and then which ones we preferred to use. Check out our working below and please comment which strategy you would use :)