Number Lines are Awesome!

This week we made our own personalised blank number lines. Jordana and Luke soon got to grips about with why blank number lines are so amazing and such a resource no matter what stage of maths you're at. When the number line is blank, we can label it to suit our learning. Maybe 1-10, 1-100, -5 to 5, 0 to 1. All numbers no matter how big or small are part of a number line.

Google Maps

As part of Get NZ Writing We had to find a location that was 1km, 5km and 10km from our school- Kerikeri Primary School. We used Google Maps to search for the places 1km, 5km and 10km from the school. We had so many learning conversations comparing decimals and using our knowledge of Kerikeri and the surrounding areas to make estimations about which locations were closer and which were further away. We were so excited about the power of Google Maps and even found Luke's old address in Japan!! It was so exciting!

We are learning the making 10 strategy to solve addition problems in Maths

We have an abundance of acorns in our classroom at the moment so we used them on some hand drawn tens frames to help solve addition problems using the Making 10 strategy. It was lots of fun!