Matt

Matt stated that he began his 'Minecraft type' pattern with 5 stickers, then he added another 3 for each consecutive pattern.  When asked how many stickers there are altogether... he said "I could work it out by going 2 groups of 3.... " in which I told him I didn't have all day for him to work it out.  He then said "OK, 17 groups of 3 is..... - 10x3=30, 7x3=21 - 30+21=51... 51 stickers plus the 5 I started with... the total number of stickers is 56".

In this assessment Matt got all of his time reading attempts incorrect so it is important that we address this by giving him lots of opportunities to read and explore the clock.  He was able to correctly draw a clock and put the hands in the correct place with the time he chose.  He was able to solve some time related problems correctly and did this by using a number line to show what he was thinking.  Keep working on time at home Matt.

Eamon, Callum, Matt and Levi worked extremely well 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.  Some of their statements required a tad more elaboration, but they managed to add detail once told.  To finish they made a computer graph.  This group worked out how to change the numbers on the axis of their computer graph because they weren't happy with it showing decimals (which it done by default), particularly because there was no decimal data.

Matt successfully made this 3D shape.  He was able to count up how many faces, edges and vertices (corners) his shape had.  He learnt how to count up how many angles there were on his shape.

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Matt really enjoyed these patterning activities.  He was easily able to complete these and added his own flair to them.  The tessellating shape pattern (top) all connects together and his symmetrical pattern (bottom) shows reflective symmetry effectively.

Keira and Matt worked together to construct this geometrical city.  They worked well together.  Matt made the 2D plan (Keira was away) and then they built this 3D city with all of the components they were required to, i.e. cylinders, pyramids, 2D shapes, tessellation and a symmetrical design.  Congratulations, this is great work.

Safety Power-point presentation

Over Term 1 and 2 we have looked at different aspects of safety.  Matt and Levi made a power-point that explained dog safety.  They researched their topic and then designed their own slide-show.  They presented their findings to the class with an entertaining slide show. They did an amazing job standing up confidently in front of the class.

5/7/16 Speech:  Here is a video of Matt's speech about a YouTuber.