Senior Celebration!

 What a stunningly hot day we had for our senior school Top Team challenge! You can see by the vibrant colours and the blue sky, what kind of day it was. Children dressed up, deciding on themes together in their groups. There was water fun, tower building, naughts and crosses, marble runs and throwing hoops and gumboots. At the end, we all had lemonade popsicles to quench our thirst, phew! Check out the fun below... 

 

 

 

Our Popcorn Containers!

Check out the variety of containers! Some of us were very close so we will decide on the winner tomorrow...

A cylinder, just shy of a few pieces...

The popcorn falls a wee bit short of the top..

About half the popcorn fits in to this container

Really interesting shaped container. Just a little large...

This container is a bit skinny! They realised they would need to increase the base size

A cone shape! Not quite big enough...

Very close to the top - Finalists!

Another container in the top 4! Extra frill on design...

Pleased to be in the top 4!

Lid on the design and finalists! They were going to change their dimensions but changed their mind at the last minute!

Volume Investigation 2 (too)

We were given a task in pairs to design a container that held exactly 293 pieces of popcorn for a new movie theatre opening in town. The only constraints were that the popcorn had to be as close to the top of the container as possible without spilling over. There were different shaped containers and a variety! All we had was 10 pieces of popcorn to help us estimate what 293 might look like. There was lots of discussion and problem solving and different ways that pairs came up with the sizes for their containers.

We are having a competition tomorrow to find out the winner as 4 pairs were very close!

 

 

Volume Investigation

We have been investigating volume in maths which brings in so many other maths skills! We discovered several formulas that worked, for working out the volumes of different sized boxes during the investigation. Some of us are creating different sized boxes to work out the maximum possible volume, others are creating boxes to hold a certain number of 'branbix' and others working out volumes involving decimals...

NZ Mathlete Of The Day

A certificate arrived in the mail today. Basit was the New Zealand Mathlete Of The Day on September 23rd, raising 8, 344 points. He also received a wristband. Great effort Basit!

Dr Phil Show!

A wonderful celebration!

What a great end to an amazing term Room 3! We celebrated all the learning we had done with our parents and grandparents. 

Thank you mums, dads and grandparents for supporting us! It's been a great term!

We know you enjoyed our quiz...

Channel 6 News Report

I'm bored, NOT!

Ilam School News!

The Wonderful City of Christchurch

Luring Ladybirds

Some Room 3 children have created a ladybird garden based on their inquiry from last term 'The Secret Lives of Living Things.' Ladybirds like umbrella shaped flowers that are wide so they can land on them easily. They also love herbs. 

Some of the flowers and herbs ladybirds like are parsley, coriander, fennel, dill and angelica. They love cosmos, alyssum, geraniums and dandelions. Ladybirds also like cornflowers, especially the blue ones!

One of the girls wanted to attract ladybirds because they are beneficial in pollinating flowers. They are also predatory insects that help control garden pests. The girls painted their planter box in the colours of a ladybird. They have planted alyssum and parsley around the edge with blue cornflowers and mixed cornflowers in the middle.

Ilam School Art Extravaganza

Fractions of sets

Equivalent Fractions

Cheese Scones and Milo

We made cheese scones and drank milo with marshmallows to 
celebrate all of our efforts and the end of term! The cheese scones were piping hot and delicious with a dash of butter...