Good Guessing - That's What Estimation's All About

Hooray for our estimating, now we have a jar of 730 jellybeans to enjoy.

This how we made our Good Guess

1. We looked at the bottom of the glass jar and counted the number of jellybeans on the bottom layer.
2. We measured (using a bendy ruler) the height of the jar.
3. We measured the amount of space the bottom layer took up.
4. We worked out how many layers there were in the jar by dividing the height by the height of one layer.
5. We multiplied the number of jellybeans in the bottom layer by the number of layers we estimated there were.

We were only 14 out!

Olivia

I love Olivia the pig. She "speaks" to me.
Imagine how pleased I was to find this website.

Haere Ra Sunhui

Room Sixteen have had a South Korean teacher for the last two weeks. Today is Sunhui's last day in Room Sixteen. The children in the class are making her a Goodbye card.
On the card the children are drawing something to do with South Korea and most are drawing a picture of themselves.
All the kids are sad that Sunhui is going back to South Korea, and most want to go with her.

by Sam

Triangle Song

Here is a YouTube movie of James Blunt singing about a triangle on Sesame Street.
Click here.

Maths Week

This week is Maths Week.
We are learning about Geometry. I've discovered this website that answers all those tricky questions about parallelograms, quadrilaterals and the like.

Online in Room 16

If only you could have witnessed the buzz of excitement in Room Sixteen this afternoon as we used the laptop pod to crop and edit the silhouette photos taken last week.
The children worked in threes to download and edit their pictures then upload them onto the intranet again. When there was no "expert" support available to them they worked cooperatively on learning tools and games to keep themselves occupied.
I'd be lying if I said everything went to plan - but hey - whenever has it in teaching? You know what they say about never work with animals or children (and they came up with that expression before computers were invented!).
Once again the St Albans Values shone through with Fun, Creativity and Manaakitanga taking the lead.

Special Visitors

Room Sixteen have been welcoming and celebrating the arrival of three korean student teachers to St Albans School.
Children and teachers from Rooms Three, Sixteen, Eleven and Twenty four gathered in Room Eleven to have a powhiri for the visitors.
Whaea Livi and two kotiro from Room 11 called to the visitors. All the children joined in with the Haka Powhiri as the visitors entered the room. Next e Pa spoke and then we all stood and sang the new school waiata, Anei Ra te Kura. It was the first time the new waiata has been used in a powhiri ever! The children and teachers felt proud but a bit nervous about sharing the new song. After e Pa finished off his speech, Mike Davy spoke for the visitors. Everyone was most impressed next when the korean students sang Pokarekare Ana in Korean. Everyone gave them a big pakipaki when they finished. Finally Mike finished off his speech and the two groups of people had a hongi.
Mrs Warren spoke to everyone and explained which classes the students would be going to. Sunhui went back to Room Sixteen where all the children introduced themselves and told her something about their lives.
Click here to see a movie of the powhiri.(Thanks to Team 23 Blog)

A Great Poetry Blog

We noticed that most of the children who won their section of the poetry competition were reciting Kenn Nesbitt poems. They made us laugh. Today I found his website. It's full of funny poems and hints about writing your own funny poems.
Click here to have a look.