Bre

Bre knew her pattern began with 8 and then added 5 more stickers each time.  With support she was able to come to the conclusion that her sticker count was 53.  (9x5 plus eight more stickers for the first unaccounted square).  Bre was successfully able to complex a complex pattern but lost the formula as she created a longer pattern.  She asked to do another one because she could see where she went wrong and wanted to fix it.

Bre is able to read some analogue and digital times.  It is important that she continue to be asked regularly what the time is.  She drew a clock with the numbers mostly in the correct place.  In Bre's picture she indicates 6 dashes in between the numbers 12 and 1 which could show she doesn't have a full understanding that there is only 5 minutes in between clock numbers.  She was able to successfully plot her chosen time with the hands in the right place.  Bre was unable to correctly answer any time related problems.  Keep working on time Bre.

Talia, Bre, Leah and Julia worked together to work out what food they have in their fridges.  Firstly they made a strip graph and then made statements about this graph.  They made a connection to fractions (because there was 4 in their group) and made statements like "3/4 people in the group like carrots".  After that they measured their strip graph into a circle and transformed this into a pie graph.  The size of the strips (i.e. carrots) helped them to measure their slice of pie.  They made more statements about their information off the pie graph and found that they were learning and seeing new things.  To finish they made a computer graph.  This group found it a bit challenging to work together at times but eventually started to compromise with one another and share out tasks.

 Bre and Lucy were able to successfully build a range of 3D shapes.  They could count the faces, edges and vertices (corners) of their shapes.  They learnt where the angles are on the shape and how to count them.  Great geometry girls.

Lucy and Bre's Powerpoint on Stranger Danger!

Lucy and Bre spent time researching and creating a power point for members of their class to help them understand 'Stranger Danger'.  They worked together to create a great slide show with useful information.  They learnt how to insert a video into their slides.  They presented it well to the class and realised how important it is to look at your audience when presenting and to check your work for any editing or spelling errors.  Well done girls!

Bre found this geometrical activity quite easy to do.  As you can see she completed a wonderful symmetrical pattern with the red and blue triangles.  Her tessellating bird shape looks effective also and she enjoyed this.  Great geometrical work Bre.

Bre and Ashton made this 3D geometrical city model.  Bre firstly made a 2D plan.  The were able to build a range of different 3D shapes (cylinders, pyramids, rectangular prisms etc) and include some simple tessellation, symmetry and shop signage.  They worked extremely well together with very little teacher input.  Bre started the project because Ashton was on holiday and then Ashton joined Bre.  It was great to see them work so well, especially because Ashton has joined the project a little later on.  Well done!

5/7/16 Speech:  Here is Bre's speech about Squash!