going on one of the treasure hunts that we made for our maths assignments

This week we crammed five days of work into four so we could get all our work done. We started our new inquiry, finished two of three writing tasks and got stuck into division.

We kicked off inquiry with a discussion about what makes a city work and what do we thing a city is. At the end of the discussion we all wrote at least one question that we would like to find the answer to before the end of the unit. Here are two;

We have been focusing on writing Tall Tales these last two weeks. We had a homework task last week to write one about one of our parents and this week we wrote one with the help of storybird.com. We will finish off Tall Tales next week when we complete our group Tall Tale. It has been hard for some of us to keep to the Tall Tale writing guidelines and many times we have slipped into fantasy writing instead. After two weeks though we are starting to get the hang of it and our writing of Tall Tales is getting better.

In maths we have moved forward with division and we are getting the hang of long division and the steps that we have to take. Some of us still find it a bit confusing at times, but we all work at different speeds. We have also continued with our short times table quizzes and now have added multiples (division) quizzes as well.

Next week we will continue to extend on what we have been doing this week in maths, writing and Inquiry. We will start to apply our knowledge of what we know about division, complete our group writing tasks and plan and organise for a trip into town on Friday.

Have a good weekend and don't forget to hang up your lights, put on your winter tyres and go to the winter bazaar this weekend!