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)

HALF WAY TO 100!

Friday was DAY 50!

We can't believe that we are halfway to DAY 100!

We knew ZERO the HERO would have something exciting for us to do on this special day.

He's obviously been watching what we've been doing, because he had lots of 'crafty' minibeasts for us to use.

And what did we do with these 'minibeasts'?

Put them into collections of 50, of course!

We used mini pompoms to make caterpillars with 50 segments to their body.

We created pictures using 50 dragonflies, butterflies or bees.

There was LOTS of counting and sorting into 5 groups of 10.

Here's a slideshow of the DAY 50 action.

As a special treat, ZERO the HERO left a Magic School Bus DISCOVERING BUGS video for us to watch.

Can you see why ZERO chose 'this' particular video for us?

He really is a HERO!

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.

COUNTING TO 100

We are counting down to the 100th day of school.

Each day, we add a body part to our 100th day worm and make a collection of objects to match the number.
We are only up to Day 8, so we have a long way
to go unlike Mrs Cassidy's class who have just reached their 100th day.
Mrs M was going to help us create a wiki, so that we could upload the pictures of our collections and have other people contribute as well.

We discovered that Mrs Knee has already created a 100 day wiki at THE 100 DAY PROJECT.

One section on the wiki is the The Counting Book .
All the numbers from 1 to 100 are listed and the idea is that you
choose a number, make a collection for it, take a photo, then upload it.
Mrs Cassidy and her class have made lots of contributions.
There are still has some numbers that don't have a picture to match, so we decided that we'd like to contribute.

Here are just 3 of the collections we have made.

What 3 numbers have we represented here?
Check back at 100 Day Project soon to see our contributions.

Do you think we should still create our own 100 day wiki?

Leave your thoughts in a comment.

And to practise counting to 100 click here.