Time Tellers

We have been practicing telling the time and also solving problems to do with time. How many minutes make up an hour? You have to be at school for registration at 8:45 am. How long does it take you to walk, drive or bike to school? So, what time do you need to leave home then?

Habitat Walk

Today, Highover's class 4 went on a habitat walk around our school. Children found 40 some more than 50 habitats around our school. My question to you is why did you put the habitats on your list in your list? What do you think might live in the habitat you listed? Why do you think that animal or plant would 'habit' there?

What a random conversation!

This morning, class 4 started a conversation sharing facts about dinosaurs. This continued to a linked conversation about human beings and how we developed by dinosaurs couldn't. This carried on to how to catch NCs and JBs, cook them, eat them and then develop a community where human beings start working together to create family helping each other! Like us in class 4! We then spoke about adding 1 + 1 and how knowing that means we know what 10 + 10 is, then we know what doubling is, and then multiplication and then ALGEBRA! What a random conversation. Then, somebody
"What is intelligence?"

...and this really got us thinking. We tried to put it in a sentence, but as you can imagine, everyone's sentence was different. Have this conversation with other people, what do they say and think? Do you agree or disagree with them? Will this make you change your mind or develop what you think intelligence is?

Feel Good Week - 11/02/2013 to 17/02/2013

This week is Feel Good Week.

What kind of things make you feel good?
If you don't feel good, what do you do to turn that around and
make you feel better?
What advice would you give someone to turn their frown upside-down?
If I feel a bit down I listen to some songs that make me feel good. One is called Slight Return by a really old band called The Bluetones.

Dinosaur Top Trumps

A really busy session today in topic-based maths. Children practised their measuring and converting measurements in centimetres to millimetres. The children learnt about dinosaurs that were 10 or 20 the size of them. They used their dimensions such as head circumference, height and others then multiplied them to find the dinosaur's body dimensions. Before doing that children came up with a formula to help them multiply any number by ten or twenty. We published our findings and rules these on the ShowMe iPad app so that we can help the entire world with our ShowMe videos! Do you remember what the formula or rules are? Does it work wit ANY number? Can you show us and prove it? How about those of you that came up with a set of rules for x20, will that work with any number? Add it to the blog and prove it!

Capacity

We have been looking at capacity this week. What is it the measurement of? So what might I use to measure capacity? What is the unit of measurement? Do I measure it in centimetres? I was really impressed with the way the children checked the scale of the measuring tools before filling it with water to make sure that the data they recorded was accurate. Good job troopers! What tools have you got at home that measure capacity?