SHARING OUR LEARNING - THE COMMONCRAFT WAY

At the beginning of the year, to help us understand what a blog was, Mrs M showed us a CommonCraft video about blogging.


We loved how it simply explained what a blog is and we wondered whether we could use this style of video to share our learning.


Mrs M showed us a CommonCraft style video The Kinderkids made about maple syrup and then we saw Mrs Cassidy's class had made CommonCraft style videos about wants and needs.


After seeing their CommonCraft videos, we definitely knew we each wanted to make one too, so here's Matthew's CommonCraft style video about the number 28.





All About 28 from 2M Gems on Vimeo.

What do you think about the CommonCraft style of video?
Have you shared your learning using this style of video?
If not, could you?


We love how other people and classes, through sharing their learning, can inspire our learning. 
We hope through sharing our learning we can inspire others too.

INVESTIGATING 2 DIGIT NUMBERS

We have been investigating two digit numbers.
Our investigations have lead us to explore not just how many TENS and ONES make up a particular number but also how we can make that number in other ways by regrouping the TENS and ONES.


Here's a video we made that shows how you can regroup 51.

Place Value with 51 from 2M Gems on Vimeo.

Have you explored the regrouping of two digit numbers?
Which numbers did you explore?
What did you discover?

USING THE BEE BOT

On Thursday we used the Bee bot and our DS's to play a direction game.. The Bee Bot had to start on number one and Sam had to roll the dice and we had to look at the number and work it out and then we had to write it in pictochat on our DS's.

It's like an maths game. A bee bot is a robot that you can program to stop and go -move forwards, backwards, left and  right.  Mrs M got it for us at a work shop. We like the bee bot. Thank you Mrs M!!!!

REFLECTING ON WORLD MATHS DAY

We are still buzzing about World Maths Day last week, so we decided to start collecting our reflections in a Voicethread.

Please keep coming back to check on the comments that have been added. If you took part in World Maths Day, we'd love you to leave a comment to or maybe you want to ask us a question. All you need is a Voicethread account, login and comment away!

IT'S WORLD MATHS DAY

Today, March 3, is World Maths Day!


It is an web event where you compete against other kids around the world in mental maths challenges.

Taking part in World Maths Day helps you develop speed and accuracy with your mental maths facts.
There are over 2 million students from 37,000 schools in 200 countries taking part and every question we all answer correctly, helps us try to break last years record of 452,681,681 correctly answered questions.

Each of us had two 20 minute game sessions over the day. Most of our competitors were from the USA, Canada, England, New Zealand and of course Australia but some of us competed against kids from Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia too.


It was really tricky typing in our answers quickly but our practice on Mathletics has helped and it became easier with each game. Many of us won most of our games and some of us even achieved the level of 'human calculator'. By 3:00pm, some of us had played over 50 games!


The video below shows the fun we had taking part in World Maths Day and do you know what the best part is?
We get to do it all again tomorrow because it will still be March 3 in other parts of the 
world!

ARE YOU ON MATHLETICS?

WE ARE...AND WE LOVE IT!

Mathletics makes learning Maths fun.

The activities and games help us understand maths concepts and Mathletics LIVE helps us become quicker and more accurate with our mental maths facts. It is really cool to practice our maths facts as we compete against others around the world.

Mrs M sets us tasks to work through. We
can keep track of how we are going and if we don't understand something, we can go to Support to be stepped through the task.


We can also go to Rainforest Maths and play some games there to help us understand concepts better.

Once we have completed all of our set tasks, then we can go onto Mathletics LIVE to compete in mental maths challenges against children from around the world.

Every task we complete earns us points and we are awarded certificates along the way.
After 2 weeks, 16 of us have been awarded one or more bronze certificates for earning a 1000 or more points in a week.
Jack was our Week 1 Mathlete of the Week and Malachy was our Mathlete for Week 2.

We'd love to know if you are using Mathletics too.
What you love best about it?
What do you find challenging?

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!

LOOK WHAT WE CAN DO NOW!

Look how 'grown-up' we are!

We have written in our 'quad books' for the
first time.

It was tricky but now we know how to
set out our sums.

We are SO excited and Mrs M was very proud of our efforts!