DAY 20 - ZERO COMES AGAIN

We had Day 20 of school during the week
and that means....
ZERO the HERO came to visit!

ZERO brought us a HUGE container of Fruit Loops and our task?
Thread them to make bracelets!


First we counted out 20 fruit loops using the Base 10 boards.

It was easy to see that we had 2 groups of ten. It wasn't easy to not eat them straight away!

As we threaded, we used the Base 10 boards to keep track of how many threaded and how many still to go.

Using Base 10 Boards from 2M Gems on Vimeo.
The threading was very tricky but before long we each had one VERY yummy bracelet!

THANK YOU ZERO FOR MAKING DAY 20 SO TASTY AND FUN!

DAY 10 - ZERO THE HERO's FIRST VISIT

On Tuesday we had ZERO THE HERO visit our classroom.

WHY?

Because it was DAY 10 of the school year!

ZERO THE HERO visited because we are counting up to the 100th day of school. He's going to help us count in tens, visiting us every '10' days until we reach the '100th' day, when we'll have a big celebration.

ZERO is going to help us understand place value and the important role 'zero' has in a number.

This was ZERO THE HERO's first visit, so he told us a little about himself, not by speaking but through strange looking designs called 'qr codes'. We needed MRs M's iphone to scan and read the codes. One of the codes had a link to ZERO THE HERO's favourite video -' ZERO, MY HERO'.

When ZERO visits, we have special activities that help us count in tens.

Watch the ANIMOTO we made to show what we did to celebrate DAY 10.

We can't wait for ZERO THE HERO to visit again.

DAY 10 - A 'ZERO THE HERO' DAY!

Today we had a special visitor
come to our
classroom - ZERO THE HERO!

WHY?





Because it was DAY...

We are counting up to the 100th day of school, so ZERO THE HERO came to help us understand place value and the important role 'zero' has in a number. He's going to help us count in tens, visiting us every '10' days until we reach the '100th' day and then we'll have a big celebration.

This was ZERO'S first visit so we watched his favourite video to learn a little more about why the number ZERO is a HERO.

Here it is for you to watch too.

When ZERO visits, we have special activities to do to help us count in tens.

Watch the slideshow to see what we did today.

We are really excited about ZERO visiting us again in another 10 days. Now there are only 90 days until DAY 100.

If you've counted up to DAY 100, we'd like to know what activities you did along the way. Did ZERO THE HERO visit you too?

AN ACTIVE DAY 70

Last Tuesday was a 'ZERO the HERO' day.
It was DAY 70!
As it was a slightly chilly day, ZERO had a plan to help us get warm and practise our counting at the same time!











We started the day by running up and down the netball court.
How many laps?... 10 of course!
Next was a circuit on the fort - up the stairs and down the slide 10 times.
We were up to 20 - 50 to go!

After lunch was our third activity, 10 star jumps... that made 30!...

followed by hopping - 10 hops on one foot... 40... then 10 on the other... we had reached 50 - 20 to go!

After Snack we did 10 big jumps like crickets... we were up to 60!...

and the last 10 - skipping.

WE HAD REACHED 70!

What a day! We enjoyed ACTIVELY counting to 70... and we were much warmer by the end of it too!

We wonder what ZERO has in store for us next?

(2M - there aren't too many more opportunities for ZERO to help you with your counting.

Do you know how many ZERO the HERO days we have left before we celebrate DAY 100?
What are your ideas for what ZERO might have you do next?

Share them with us in a comment... and while you're waiting for ZERO's next visit, there's a game you can play to help you practise adding on 10 - just scroll back up and click on the picture of ZERO. Mrs M)

IT'S DAY 60 ALREADY!

It's hard to believe that it's 10 days since Zero the Hero's last visit and that it's now DAY 60!

We are working with big numbers now, so Zero gave us 'numeral expanders' to help us understand 'place value'.

We rolled special 'tens' and 'ones' dice
and used blocks or paddlepop stickes to represent what we had rolled.

Then we checked how many bundles of ten and loose ones we had and recorded it on our numeral expander.

We could then fold the numeral expander in to see the 2 digit number we had made.

With a numeral expander, we can easily check the value of each digit.

Here's Jarvis explaining the number 53.

Want to play some on-line place value games?

Try RAINFOREST MATHS, Level B, Place Value and SHARK POOL

IT'S A 'ZERO' DAY

It was another 'ZERO the HERO' day today - DAY 40!

'ZERO' had lots of equipment for us to bundle, link, stack and arrange into groups of 10.

It didn't matter which equipment we used, we all used the same process.

We counted in ones or twos to make groups of 10. We had 4 groups.

Then we counted each group...10, 20 ,30, 40...

4 groups of 10 is 40!

Next we rotated through activities where we worked with '40'.

One of the activities was the 'Make and Take' game. For the first part of the game we rolled a dice and added paddlepop sticks to the ONES house on our chart. When we could make a ten, we bundled them up and put them in the TENS house. The first one to 40 was the winner.

For the second part, when we rolled the dice, we had to 'unbundle' the groups of TEN. The first one back to ZERO was the winner.

Other activities had us being CREATIVE with 40.

We could use the coloured matchsticks to make a picture, or the wooden shapes to create a design or construct something out of Lego.... but we could only use 40 pieces!

Here are some pictures of some of our creations.

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We LOVE 'ZERO THE HERO' DAYS.

OUR FAVOURITE HERO RETURNS!

Who had 30 reasons to visit us today?

ZERO - our favourite counting hero!

He brought us a special gift of coloured matchsticks to help us to practise bundling groups of 10.

For our DAY 30 investigation, ZERO had packets of jellybeans for us and two questions:

1. How many ways, besides in ones, can you count to 30?
2. Is your packet of jellybeans the same as mine?

First we used the 'base 10 boards' to count out 30 jellybeans.

We found we could count in TENS - 10, 20, 30 and FIVES - 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and TWOS - 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30.
Along the way, we made this discovery:



The second part of our investigation is still continuing, as we had to ask MORE questions.

The packages look the SAME and the weight on the pckage says 375 grams BUT...

Does each packet have the same colours in it?

Is there the same number of each colour in each packet?

Are all the jellybeans the same size?

Does each packet have the same total number of jellybeans?

We PREDICTED that each packet would NOT be exactly the same.

To test our theory, used the 'base 10 boards' to sort and count out each colour.

Each group now knows what colours are in their packet and how many of each colour there is.Tomorrow we will graph our results and compare. Will our PREDICTION be correct?

DAY 20 FUN

It's Day 20 of school-

and that means....

ZERO the HERO came to visit!

He brought with him a BIG container of lollies - lollies that could be threaded to make bracelets!



First we had to count out 20 lollies using Base 10 boards.
Then we checked we had 20 by counting in tens.

The Base 10 boards make it easy to see that 20 is 'two' groups of 10.

Then came the tricky part - the threading!Again we used the Base 10 boards to keep track of how many we had threaded and how many we still had to go.


Before long we each had one VERY yummy bracelet!

THANKYOU ZERO FOR OUR DAY 20 TREAT!We wonder what fun Day 30 will bring?

Now is that BEFORE or AFTER Easter?

ZERO THE HERO ARRIVES!

Today ZERO THE HERO

came to our

class

room.

WHY?

Because it was DAY...

ZERO THE HERO came to help us understand the important role 'zero' has in a number, to help us count in tens and learn about place value. He is going to visit us every '10' days until we reach the '100th' day of school.
Then we will have a big celebration like our friends in Canada.


Because it was 'ZERO's first visit, we watched this, his favourite video.



Each time 'ZERO' visits, we'll have a special activity to do.


Today we made threads of 10, sticks of 10 and bundles of 10.

ZERO THE HERO left us 10 pencils for our spare box.

We can't wait until 'ZERO' visits us again in another 10 days.