Football Fun

Griffin joined in with room 17 today for some inflatable football fun.  He had a great time dribbling the ball through the cones and running around the inflatable ring.!

                                      

Balance Time!

Griffin was having an amazing time practicing his gross motor skills out on the field with the big spinning wheels.  He managed to get from one side of the field to the other, avoiding collisions with all the other children along the way.  Good work Griffin!

Gross Motor play time

Griffin enjoys spending time in room 5 playing on the gross motor equipment.  Griffin was showing great balance and control on all the gross motor equipment.

 

Courage brainstorm

Place Value thinking

In Maths yesterday we were representing numbers by using place value materials, (blocks and abacus). We then worked out how may thousands, hundreds, tens, ones and tenths were in each number that we made. It was great mathematical thinking!

Literacy Time

    

Griffin loves turtles and has been studying them for the past few days. Today he wrote some amazing sentences about his turtle pictures as you can see.  Griffin is starting to sound out unfamiliar words and is using his vocabulary to enhance his short sentences. 

Griffin is also enjoying his art and creating pretty amazing pictures.  Great work Griffin, keep it up!

The Maths Curse!

Today in our numeracy group we read "The Maths Curse" by John Schieska. In the story we read about lots of Maths problems. One of the problems in the story was:
Mrs. Fibbonaci had 24 children in her class. They are in 4 rows. How many children are in each row?
We all had to solve the problem and show our strategies. Then we talked about and explained our strategies to a buddy and then the group. We put our thinking onto a SOLO thinking rubric. We listed all of our stratgies (Multistructural outcome). Then we explained our strategies (Relational outcome). Lastly we created different problems, like 24 children in 3 rows, 6 rows and 8 rows... (Extended abstract outcome). It was pretty cool Maths thinking!