Room 21's Class Blog

In this story, we read about digging holes that were 5 feet wide, 5 feet long and 5 feet deep.  We wondered how big that was and how long it might take to dig them. We used our chrome books to convert 5 feet into metres. We learned that 5 feet equals 1.524 metres.  We used this information to get a better idea of what size this hole would be. We used a metre long ruler to measure it out. Ms Corbett showed us how to measure 524mm. Then we wanted to know how deep 5 feet was. We drew lines on the whiteboard to show our estimates. When we used a 1 metre ruler to measure 5 feet (1.524 metres), all of our estimates were very close. We wondered how long it would take to dig a hole 5 feet deep. We timed ourselves for 10 minutes and then measured how deep we had dug in 10 minutes.   We dug 1.52 metres in 10 minutes.  In Maths, we used this information to calculate how long it would take to dig a hole that was 5 feet deep.  We worked in groups to share our ideas abou...

We are learning to talk about our ideas in maths. We are learning to listen to each other and ask others for support when we don't understand. We know that everybody has something valuable to contribute in each discussion.  Our teacher was very proud that we persevered even when it was challenging.  Our teacher was very happy to see us collaborating and sharing our ideas about our learning.  Ka pai Room 21.

For science and maths, we have been learning about classification. We looked at what was similar and what was different. Can we find a pattern?  Ms. Corbett gave us different items to classify and we had to explain our classification. Some us put it into groups of colour and shapes.  Then we had to group the items into much harder categories. Can you guess how we classified them?