Old fashioned sports afternoon

Coding - hour of code week

It was hour of code week, December the 5th through to the 11th. We used lots of different activities to explore coding. We tried unplugged activities (coding without computers), we programed the Bee Bots, used the Dot and Dash robots, and explored coding apps - Kodable and Scratch Jnr.

Volume and Capacity!

This week we have been focusing on Volume and Capacity for maths.

Today we had to think hard and work together to measure the volume and capacity of some containers we made.

First we had to think about how to make a container. We made lots of different sized and shaped containers to use!

             

Then we had to decide what we were going to use to measure the capacity of our containers; dinosaurs? cubes? teddy bears?

We filled our containers with what we had chosen. Then we had to count how many our container could fit, some of us counted in two's to help us figure it out faster.

             

We recorded how many our container could fit and shared our finding with a buddy to see who's container could hold the most.

Over the weekend perhaps you could build a container and see how many objects fit inside? 

Green and growing

Green and Growing!!!!

During Discovery we have been super lucky to have Susan come and do gardening with us.

The broad bean plants that were planted were finally ready to be picked.

We carefully picked them off the plant. 

We tasted them.

We counted them.

We compared the lengths of them.

We had so many beans!!!!!!!

Next we pulled out the plants. Susan is going to put them in the compost bin.

We will plant our sunflowers in there next week.