Multiplication Made Easy!

Gillian's Maths Groups are learning some tricks for their times tables.  Watch this video to see what they are!

Inventing Potions for Halloween!

Inventing potions! from Gillian Menaker on Vimeo.

Bridge Building Challenge--let's see some innovation!

Bridge Building take 1 from Gillian Menaker on Vimeo.

Skyscrapers revisited

Today the red group had their second attempt at building skyscrapers.  We used what we had learnt about how to make our structures stronger and our skyscrapers are much taller.

Weet bix challenge....

Chrissy's writing group had a challenge...they had to put their inventors hats on and come up with some creative and interesting recipe ideas using weet bix...here are some photo's to get your taste buds going!

We are learning all about 1/2, 1/4 using containers and blue water!

Finding Quarters

Today in Maths Ruth's Tui group practiced sharing in quarters.  We shared our pizza muffins cookies an juice between 4 people so everyone had an equal share.  We each got 1/4.