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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

50 Days at school



 We have been counting how many days we have had at school. We are learning you can only have 9 in the ones place before you need to swap it for a 10. It was 50 days at school and we were so excited.  50 is 5 groups of 10. We counted 10,20,30,40,50. 
Ruhi and Harkirat counting their popcorn in groups of 10
We celebrated 50 days at school with lots of different ways of making 50 and counting to 50.
Counting 50 popcorn kernels
Aidan counting 50 blocks to create with



Cassidy and Ruby creating a creature with 50 dots

Arkalias and Charlie ordering the numbers to 50


Boys working together to work out
what numbers they still needed to find
Ella using her underarm throw to try and help the class get
50 bean bags in the bucket


Demetry trying to help the class get 50 horseshoes 

Writing 50 words.
We wrote some we knew and some were looking words
around our room.
Working collaboratively to stack 50 cups


Ana-Lee using the eye dropper
to find out what 50 drops looks like
Jayden shooting to help Kakabeak get 50 shots
in the goal.


Shayden recording his shots

Eliza and Aaliyah writing their 50 words
Aidan persevering on his creation
Lucian is counting his 50 blocks


Addy and Daniel figuring out what numbers they need to find.
All the numbers were hidden around the room.
Persevering with shooting the ball in the hoop


Hayley trying to get bean bags in the bucket.
Wonder how many more until we get to 50?
Adam found one of the missing numbers.
Great spotting Adam


Issy tipping her 50 pieces of popcorn into the
popcorn maker
Ana-Lee writing 50 words
Honor and Khlo'e have nearly stacked 50 cups
Oh No! Giggle giggle giggle.
And... they started again.
Great perseverance.


Tamati counting 5 groups of 10 and used the sticks to write his name.





Lily and Renae counting 50 popcorn kernels


Logan and Lucian sharing their 50 pieces of popcorn


Marcus counting his 50 blocks
ready to make his creation
Aidan working out how many more sticks he needs to have 50
sticks in his name


The girls making creature with 50 dots

Demetry writing his name with 50 sticks
We did it!

Super collaborating girls

Kayden counting his 50 blocks and Marcus beginning his creation


We had lots of learning fun celebrating 50 days at school. We can't wait for 100 days at school.


Thursday, April 6, 2017

Money and Shopping

The Kakabeak Kids have been learning about money. They have been choosing to buy things from different shops. 
Logan and Issy playing shops at the teen number
tedddy shop.
$10 and $4 is $14
Logan counting his money


Anberlin with her purchase from the teen number
teddy shop


Addy counting how many tens and ones she needs
to buy a toy
Addy checking Khlo'e has paid her the right amount

Mercy and Jay counting in tens and ones together

Cody checking Zane has paid him enough tens and ones
Jay bough a cricket set for $36.
Does he have enough money?


Jayden buying some groceries.
He is writing a number sentences to show his thinking

Aaliyah buying groceries.
She has the biggest number first.
Drevon counting how many tens and ones he needs
to buy toys from the toy shop.


Arkalias and Drevon playing in the toy shop together

Cooper working out how many tens and ones he
needs
Logan is buying 3 things from the grocery shop.
He is making sure the biggest number is first.


Honor working out how much she needs to pay
for her 3 grocery items.

Logan and Hayley solving problems working out how much they
need to pay.



Daniel and Renae paying $10 for each item
and giving each other change.
Ruby and Adam working out how much it will
cost for 3 things from the grocery store.


Khlo'e and Addilyn made a Pic Collage of their shopping