Learning on Friday

Friday 

Last week we read a big book called 'Bikes'.  On Friday we designed our own bikes and labeled some of the parts just like the book.  We drew our bikes according to our own ideas but they had to have some things on them.  (Some of us added extra details as part of our design)

All our bikes had to have:

• 1 seat
• 2 handlebars
• 2 wheels
• 5 spokes in each wheel

Here are some of us at work and a couple of the bikes.  

We sat in a circle with all our bike designs and worked out how many seats, handlebars, wheels and spokes there were in the circle.   We counted 16 bikes and because we knew that every bike had one seat, we knew straight away that there were 16 seats. 

Because there were two handlebars on each bike we counted in twos and found out that there were 32 handlebars.  And there were two wheels on each bike too so we predicted that were the same number of wheels as handlebars.  And we were right!

Steven said that there were five spokes on each wheel so we should count in fives to work out how many spokes there were.  Great thinking Steven.  There were 160 spokes altogether.  Then Paige suggested we could also have counted in tens because even though each wheel had five spokes, each whole bike had 10 spokes.   Both ways gave the same total.  Sometimes there are lots of different ways to work things out.

Just because some people in Room 2 love to challenge themselves, we explored yet another way of finding out how many spokes altogether.  If you say that there are 16 bikes and they all have 10 spokes then you can say that there are 10 lots of 16 and that is 160.  You can write this down as 10 x 16 = 160.  Wow - multiplication.  That's pretty advanced maths Room 2. 

ABC

After Maths it was time for our ABC.  ALL of Room 2 were on the green traffic light so we all got to celebrate awesome behaviour.  We had choosing time.  We could choose ANY learning activity or game in Room 2.  

We used the computer, played word games on the whiteboard, made some cool stuff at the design table and played Twister to name just a few choices.  

Libby, Cairo and KayLee teamed up to play hangman. 

Kerrianne did an awesome job of calling out the colours and positions and is very good at reading Left and Right.  Rebecca, Briah and Luke all know which is their Left side and which is their Right.  Yahoo!

Check out Steven's awesome dragon.  Mum, Dad and Steven had a very busy and creative time making it together and he brought it in on Friday morning.  

(Steven told us all about the dragon and how they made it at buzz group news on Monday) 




After lunch on Mondays we go to the library and on Thursdays we usually have Discovery but on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays we  Relax & Read.

Here are some photos of us enjoying reading.  Our reading skills are improving every day!!