Cross Country

If it is looking like rain tomorrow morning Cross Country will be postponed again until Thursday.

Tonight all Room 8 children are bringing home their current Reading Goal. Please encourage your child to talk to you about this. Your child's goal is something they need to do to specifically enhance their decoding skills and/or reading comprehension.

Heart Jam

On Friday all the children at Brookfield Primary School took part in Heart Jam (an aerobic dance) in an effort to raise money for children with heart problems.

Basic Facts Practise

www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fruitshoot/fruitshoot_addition.htm


Click on the above link and it will take you to a good game to practise your basic facts.

Reminders for the week starting Monday 31st May

Our Cross Country postponement date is Tuesday 1st June.

We have our first visit from Michael and Harold in the Life Education Truck this Thursday. I wonder if Harold's jokes will be any better than Brook's jokes!

Spelling Notebooks and this weeks 'Fab Word' go home again Monday and need to be brought back to school on Friday.
Don't forget to put your Kiwi Can Challenge Sheet in a safe place and bring this back to school on Thursday ready for your Kiwi Can leaders.

Blog your responses to this weeks Maths problems by Friday morning.

We re-negotiated Reading Goals on Friday based on where children are at with their reading. Encourage your child to talk to you about what their next step in reading is.

Maths Problems for the week commencing 31st May

We are learning about the importance of rivers (awa).

As part of our inquiry unit on Water (Wai), we have been looking at the importance of rivers (awa) to Maori. We have been learning how Maori view rivers as the veins, and water as the blood of Paptuanuku (the earth mother). The river is like a human body, if it is not kept clean it may become sick and may die. The river keeps the impurities away and keeps the land healthy. Healthy land is important for growing kai (food). If a river gets polluted, food gets contaminated and people get sick. Marae were often built near rivers. We have been learning about how sometimes rivers or sections of rivers are tapu if someone has drowned. This means that we should not go into the river until the tapu has been lifted. Rivers were named after events or places and we looked up local rivers and place names that contained 'wai' to work out the meaning behind them.

Reminders for the week starting Monday 24th May

1. Spelling Notebooks will come home again on Monday. Find out the meaning of this weeks "Fab Word". Challenge yourself to use this word in a sentence.
2. Challenge someone to a game of Multiplication Loopy or write up some answers to your Flash Card problems.
3. Reading Log's should be updated daily. Bring your Reading Log into school when you reach a milestone.
4. Kiwi Can Class Challenge Sheet - This sheet needs to be returned to school ready to give to Lisa and Mate at Thursday's session of Kiwi Can.
5. Advertising Homework Project will be issued Tuesday 25th May and is due Tuesday 8th June.
6. Cross Country is timetabled for this Tuesday afternoon. I expect we will be organising a postponement date for this as the weather forecast is not looking great.
7. Blog your response to this weeks 2 Maths Problems.

Maths problems for the week commencing 24th May

Blog your answer to our 2 Maths problems and explain how you worked them out.

Problem Solvers

We have some outstanding problem solvers in Room 8!
Hannah's brother will be 18 and she will be 22.

The sum of their ages is now 20. For the sum of their ages to be 40, we need to add 20 years to their ages now in total, which means we add 10 years to each person's age now.

Brookfield School Writing Competition

Room 8 are amazingly neat writers. We took out first, second and third places in both the Year 4 and Year 5 categories. Congratulations also to Jay who is Room 8's most improved writer.

In Room 8 we never settle for less than our best!

Cross Country Training

Maths Problem

Maths Problem

What a fun day we are having in Room 8 today! Earlier in the week we had a visitor from Sport Waikato who showed us some badminton skills. Badminton is a fast racquet sport. Today we have been outside learning how to hold a badminton racquet correctly for over and under arm striking of the shuttlecock. We have been balancing the shuttlecock and seeing how long we can keep it moving for. This is a necessary skill for enabling us to have a game of badminton.

Maths
Ask someone to challenge you to a game of "Rocket". All that is needed is a dice, paper and a pen. The aim of "Rocket" is to be the fastest to order your numbers on the rocket correctly. Remember, if you can not order a number you miss that turn.

I will post this week's Maths problem on Sunday night. Remember to comment on our blog if you think you have found the answer (let us know how you came to the answer).

Have a super weekend. Miss Gow looks forward to seeing all Room 8 students again on Monday.

Puzzle

Game of the week. Here is a really cool Maths game called ‘Matho 1′. It’s great for playing with a group!

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/maths/interactives_matho1.php

Maths Problem solved by Ezra

Well done Ezra! You are the first person in Room 8 to blog the correct answer to this weeks Maths problem. Ezra has worked out that each hamburger would be $2.25 and the fries would be $1.50. $2.25 + $2.25 + $1.50 = $6.00. The hamburgers are
75c more than the fries.

Maths Problem

Joshua R has been doing some good thinking about our Maths problem, so has Ezra, Joshua W and Koben. Think about what you are doing to solve the problem? Does the cost of your 2 burgers and fries add up to $6 when you have finished?
In Writing this morning we have been looking at what an advertisement is and the language of advertising. We are going to be linking the language of advertising into our expositional writing unit.
What a great day we are having in Room 8!

Maths Problem

Here is this weeks Maths Problem.
At Terry's Takeaway Place, 2 hamburgers and one packet of fries cost $6 altogether. A hamburger costs 75c more than the fries. How much is one hamburger?

Adrienne from Waterline showing us how to change a washer on a tap

Mnemonic

Last week our 'fab word' was 'mnemonic". A mnemonic is a device to help you remember some thing tricky. An example is 'arithmetic' (A red indian thought he might eat toffee in church). Another example is 'Ngaruawahia' (Nine girls are running under a waterfall and here I am). We came up with some good mnemonics of our own.
Do you have a mnemomnic for one of your spelling words this week or perhaps for another word or place name? Please add your mnemonic as a comment to our blog and share it with us.