A New Book

Room 13 had an awesome visitor today. Her name was Maddy. Maddy read us a cool story called 'Where the Giant Lies' by Mem Fox. She brought the book over from Australia as a gift for our school from her school. Thank you Maddy and Our Lady of the Angels.

Maths time

Some of us have been learning about sharing and dividing.

We are getting better and better at it.

                           There are different ways that we can work out the answers to problems such as, "The class had 24 seeds to plant and had to put them into 6 rows. How many seeds would be in each row?"

Sometimes we share out the "seeds" one by one into each row. Sometimes we share them out in groups of two or three.

Sometimes we can work out the answers using number facts.

For example, we know that 8 + 8 = 16 and 4 + 4 = 8 so the answer to 16 divided by 4 must be four.

It makes us think. Especially when we get given mean ones like, "24 divided by what = 6?"

Our Futures

As part of our "Yes, No, Maybe" news discussion, we explored the idea of being taken away to a specialist school to train from a very young age as they do in China.

Interestingly some children thought it would be a good idea and all had ideas about what they might like to train as.

Here are some of their ideas.