Maths Week - Counting Lollies!

Mrs Madden gave the school a challenge to see who could guess the correct amount of lollies in the three jars below.

Team 8 went and looked and then we had a discussion about how we could work it out.

Everyone had a different idea and everyone wanted to guess... BUT, Mrs Madden said we could only put in one guess per class.

What we did know is that we have to work out what jar A+ B + C =

Here are our guesstimates

After much discussion around how we could make one fair guess one clever person  said...could we add them together and do something with the numbers??

So after Mrs Grant helped a little, here are all the numbers added together then doing something special called division.

So our final decision was let's put in 272 lollies as the total.

Mrs Grant wasn't at assembly last Friday, so doesn't know how many lollies there were in the jars or Who got to eat the lollies. 

Was it us Team 8?

Were we close????

Cupcake Mad

It's no secret that Mrs Grant and Mrs Turner LOVE cupcakes... SOOOOO why not do a whole week of them?

On Monday Team 8 made cupcakes, on Tuesday and Wednesday we created art and stories about them. On Thursday we designed new flavours and made movies about them!

Here are some of the movies we made about our cupcake designs. I wish they were real so I could eat them up! What about you?

Genius Time - Day 1

Team 8 2018's FIRST EVER Genius Time started today! Woo-hoo!

It was sooo cool to see everyone working hard to solve problems and being super creative with their designs and resources. Mrs Turner is very proud of the perseverance and patience you showed. 

Mrs Crowhurst and her class from Bucklands Beach Primary did a Google Hangout with us at the end.  It was cool sharing our progress and designs with her class! We can't wait to see how they turn out.

A special THANK YOU to ALL the Mummy's who came in to help us! Mrs Turner definitely couldn't have done it without you!! Hopefully we didn't scare you too much and you'll be back next Thursday!

Here are some pictures of our first day:

Theo thinking about how to make a soccer ball.

Aaminah creating a sheep

Ben's mum is helping Michelle and Leona with their designs

The boys creating a paper mache Volcano (which they wanted to explode today no matter how many times we tried to explain that the glue needs to dry first!)

Zoe and Zoey with their Unicorn patterns

Gabriella thinking about her design

Mrs Harding helping Indi, Paul and Ben to create a survey about different flavoured Ice Creams (Mrs Turner hopes that they make Ice Cream and leave it all for her to eat!)

Synthia is creating a butterfly. She worked super hard and stayed focused the WHOLE hour and has nearly finished!!! It looks great Synthia!

Andy and Sam are painting their Dragons/dinosaurs

I hope Cameron's cat likes pink! (he is making a cat bed)

Dia figuring out how to make a musical instrument.

Keep checking our blog to see our final creations!

Mindfulness and Oral Language

Over the past few weeks, Team 8 have been learning about our feelings and how they make our body and mind feel. 
When we feel excited our heart is beating really fast and our muscles are tight. When we are sad, we sometimes cry and want to be alone. When we are happy, our heart is doing back-flips and our muscles are relaxed. If we are angry, our muscles are tight and we might want to hurt people. 
We have some "Mood Monsters" that are going to hang out on our walls to help us remember about our feelings. 

On Thursday, Mrs Grant got us talking about our feelings. We had to say sentences such as "I feel happy when..., I feel sad when..., I feel excited when..., I felt scared when..." We even wrote a sentence about it.

On Friday, Mrs Turner got us talking about those feelings AGAIN! This time though, we had some leaders that helped us to share our feelings onto PuppetPals. We are now ALL experts and can help you, or any other class (now there is a challenge for the rest of Sunnyhills!) create your very own 'feelings' movie on Puppet Pals.

I have attached all the movies below (Michelle, Synthia and Indi, I am so sorry I couldn't find yours - you can help me next week and I will pop it up for you). Please note that I have left their creations in their original form. I love how you can almost hear the thought processes in some of their heads. I especially love how collaborative EVERYONE was AND how many leaders emerged taking charge and keeping everyone on task.

Please have a look and listen. We would love to hear your thoughts about them. Our learning intention was to speak CLEARLY and CONFIDENTLY about a feeling we have had.

How did we do?

Talking

Hi everyone,

In Team 8 over the next few weeks, we are going to focus on our Oral Language skills. We will be learning how to speak clearly, with expression, to share information about ourselves. We are using the information we collected for our Pepeha. 

Mrs Turner has been teaching some children how to use Puppet Pals on the iPad. We only know a little part of the puzzle and have to work together to piece it all together.

Yesterday, Mason and Zoe learned the first piece of the puzzle and Josephine and Samuel learned the second part. This is Josephine's test. 

Not bad for a first attempt we think!

Can you please leave her some feedback? we'd love to hear what you liked and what you think she could improve on.

We'll keep you posted.... hopefully everyone in Team 8 will be able to create their own Puppet Pals video.