Thinking & Learning

In Room 3, teacher and students alike have been experimenting with Explain Everything. We had a lot of fun today and deleted a few slides before we learnt how to save them. Below, please look at the thinking we have chosen to share around Maths!

What's the maths in mapping?

We worked on mapping and figured out there is a lot of maths involved such as measurement, decimals,compass bearings, coordinates, direction, scale and many other aspects we discovered.

Some of us have been creating our own scale maps. We applied the skills of using scale to create a map into a context of our own choice within the school. The obstacle course was popular to measure and so was the library. We had to measure accurately. We then had to come up with a scale and convert our measurements to scale and create a map. 

Check out our scale maps below!

A team effort of the whole obstacle course - Jack, Zach, Thimeth & Philip

Jack's birds eye view and side view of first obstacle

Blue Skies Camp '15

This term, we traveled to Blue Skies Camp in Kaiapoi for 2 nights and 3 days. We went fishing, tackled the confidence course, abseiled, and sped through the air on the flying fox. 

Another great highlight was a tour of the Ashley River Wetland with Maka and Niall from Environment Canterbury. Catching sight of a group of Royal Spoonbills sweeping the mud for shell fish was spectacular. We also saw the threatened species, the Black Billed Gull as well as White Faced Herons and Pied Stilts. A favourite with everyone was hauling muddy Short Finned and Long Finned Eels from the water in traps. We made sand sculptures at Pines Beach and then went on an 'epic' walk that took 2.5 hours! Well, after that we were ready for something to eat and drink.

It was really fun making our own pizzas on the second night and playing spotlight! Many of us were sad when camp was over!

Here are a few photos or, you can see a slide show of all of them on the righthand side of the blog.