WHO'S CORRECT?

2M,
Here's a 'show holiday' challenge for you.
I want you to have a look at this video. It's a scene from an old Abbott and Costello movie (Mum, Dad or grandparents will be able to tell you about them).
In this scene, Costello has baked 28 donuts. You'll see him and Abbott debating over how many donuts 7 crewmen are going to each get.

One of them hasn't worked it out correctly...can you?
Leave a comment to tell us how you worked out how many donuts each crewman gets.
If you have a microphone at home, you might want to use Sketchcast to show how you worked it out.

100th DAY OF SCHOOL - YIPPEE!

Today we celebrated our 100th day - and what a special day it was!

We have been counting towards this day since the start of the school year, each day putting another body part on our 100 day worm.

Every 10 school days, we have been visited by ZERO the HERO, who has given us activities to help us learn to count by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's. Through these activities, we've also learnt all about Place Value- ones, tens and now hundreds - which came in handy when we were making our collections of 100 things!

Our day was filled with lots of fun, from making 100 day crowns, glasses and fruit loop necklaces to playing a very noisy game of Balloon Bingo. We enjoyed looking at everyone's collections of 100 and of course we had a '100th Day' treat of cookies and an iceblock.

There was something else 'VERY' special about Day 100...'SO' special, that it deserves it's 'own' post!

Have a look at our Photoshow to see the fun we had. We're sure it will carry over into Day 101!

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)

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?

ANOTHER MILESTONE!

We can't believe that we have had over 2000 visitors to our blog and it's only WEEK 6!

It was only 2 weeks ago that we reached 1000 visitors!


We worked out that if we keep getting 2000 visitors every 6 weeks, we'll have about 14 000 visitors by the end of the year.

If we get 1000 visitors every 2 weeks, we'll have about 20 000 visitors by the end of the year!



THAT'S AMAZING because last year we only had about 4000 visitors ALL year!

So THANKYOU again to all our visitors.
We love that you take the time to see what we are doing.
PLEASE also take the time to LEAVE A COMMENT or ASK A QUESTION.
We'd love to 'TALK' to you!