New Maths

For the rest of the term we have changed up our maths rotations.  Now we get to choose what we do everyday. Our options are Maths buddy,Figure it out, and worksheet. Another change is that we no longer get the games box unless we have finished all of our maths.  We are also learning statistics and probility.  Yesterday I did the worksheet and it was about making survey questions for a vet clinic, tv ads and junk mail.  Our maths buddy is about spinners and the most likely times for it to land on a color.    

 

reading

Today, we did Reciprocal Reading. Reciprocal Reading is where a group of people come together to read and analyze a piece of writing in a school journal. We did the poem named “Early” written by Rachel Bush.

Here’s the poem:

“The Darkness wears a quiet sound

of fires died down and people who stir

in sleep. Soon they will slip on

their daily selves, button them up.

A rooster knows the time, says

it out loud when the day is less

than a light line above the hills 

A car hitches its shoulders,

decides to keep going.

It's lights make holes in the night.

One ruru calls

its own name.

It's wings are invisible.

They make no sound.”

This poem is about nighttime, and all of the things that happen in the night. The first paragraph details the day turning to night. The second paragraph details a rooster, telling us about how the rooster clucks when the night comes.

Paragraph three tells us about a car, driving in the night. The car turns on its headlights, illuminating the dark road. The last paragraph talks about an owl hooting, and how the owl is 

Dressing up And Jack O Mandarins.

Yesterday in our halloween morning we had a rotation about dressing up. We learnt that people used to dress up as a diguise so that the evil spirts couldn't recionise them. We had alot of differnt dress up items to chose from. 
Another rotation was Jack O mandarins. We got to decorate a mandarin with a sharpie to make it look like a jack O lantern or a carved pumpkin. .
Also at the end of the day if you were good Mrs Costello put your name into a hat and at the end of the day she had 8 books and if your name got pulled out you won one of the books. I happened to win one of the books.