Maths is all around us! Collaboration with Auroa School

Maths is EVERYWHERE! It surrounds us in nature and technology. Everyday tasks such as driving, playing sports or cooking, require us to use Maths.

Maths influences our daily lives. Galileo said, "Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe."   

In collaboration with our friends at Auroa School in Taranaki, we asked the students to put on their "Maths Eyes" and look for Maths around them. We started adding to these slides in lockdown. 

Can you answer the questions? Can you create your own Maths questions? 

The purpose of having Maths Eyes is to show that Maths is meaningful and it is not just something that we do in school. 

'Why is it important to have Maths Eyes?

• Having maths eyes promotes the usefulness of mathematics – Everyone has maths eyes they just need to be opened. Involves individuals, parents, children, young adolescents, pensioners, teachers, tutors.
• Having maths eyes builds confidence in mathematics.
• Having maths eyes encourages the use of the real world as a starting point for the relevant exploration in the maths world.
• Having maths eyes provides excellent opportunities for linking education (primary, secondary, adult) and community.
• Having maths eyes provides a platform for adults and children to share their maths eyes in their everyday life whether they are shopping, walking, driving, at sports events – everywhere. Open a channel for dialogue about real world mathematics.
• Maths Eyes provides parents with opportunities to talk about mathematics that are not related to homework
• Having maths eyes promotes active citizenship and informed decision making.
• When teachers, and tutors have maths eyes they can identify real world starting points for mathematics teaching and learning that are relevant to the social, cultural and educational context of their learners.
• Developing maths eyes helps to create a new inheritance for future generations –‘ we are all real world maths people’

This list was directly quoted from the Maths Eyes Website: http://www.haveyougotmathseyes.com/

Playing Maths games are fun!

Book Club: Collaboration with Auroa School

We know that lots of you have been reading some great books. Please add to "Book Club." Our friends at Auroa School have also been adding their recommendations. 

This is a place to share books! Tell us about what you’re reading at the moment...

What thoughts and ideas does it spark?
What characters do you admire and why?
What advice would you give the main characters?
Describe the setting, what does it look like?
What’s a summary of the plot?

Who would you recommend this book to?

 

Visualisation and Painting a Picture in the Reader's Mind

We have been thinking about the reading strategy of Visualisation. We have been linking this to writing and how we can paint a picture in the reader’s mind. We drew a picture plan of an alien then wrote descriptions. We sent the descriptions (not the picture plans) to students at Auroa School to see if we were able to paint a picture in the reader’s mind…

Pepeha with our Friends at Auroa School

We recently did a Skype with Auroa School in Taranaki. We took turns saying our pepeha and saying it without reading it. We acknowledged the other school for giving it their best shot. It was a great experience speaking to others in a different language and getting the courage for public speaking. We think they did good for the first time saying their pepeha to people they didn’t know for the first time. We were very nervous and one of us nearly chickened out of doing it but he still persevered.

Skype with our friend, Serge from France

Today we skyped with Serge Galligani who teaches at Brindas, France. It is near Lyon. We have been collaborating with the school this year. Their blog is Today we skyped with Serge Galligani who teaches at Brindas, France. It is near Lyon.

We have been collaborating with his school this year. At the end of their school year (July), his class made us a movie. You can view it on their blog: http://cm1.galligani.eu/2018/07/06/bye-bye-friends/

He is visiting New Zealand at the moment and said that the country is very beautiful. Serge is currently visiting our friends at Auroa School in Taranaki, New Zealand.

Jude, Eloi and Zoe were able to speak to him in french. We spoke a mixture of french and english.

In France you can eat snails, but Serge does not like them very much.

Serge's school is a very big one and they have boys and girls, just like at Worser Bay school and Brindas does not have uniforms either.

In Brindas, Serge’s class has few devices. Serge uses his camera to make movies. The class share one computer.

It was great talking to Serge today and learning about where he is from. We look forward to collaborating more in the future. 

By Ridley

Brindas

Problem Solving: I am a thinker!

Students have been working on problem solving in Maths. You may have seen some of these on Seesaw. Our big focus is explaining our thinking and justifying our answers. Please continue these conversations at home...

After camp, our students made up their own problem solving activities for each other. We also sent these to Room 3 at Auroa School to solve. Students at Auroa School have made some problems for us. The photos are of us working on the problems that they wrote.

We have been working through a thinking process for problem solving. This is linked to our learner attribute: I am a thinker!

The problems on the slide below are from Auroa School:

Here are some of our camp problems. Can you solve them? 

Skyping with Auroa School

Yesterday, we Skyped our friends at Auroa School in South Taranaki. We talked about the year and what we have been doing recently. They have been doing athletics and lots of other work. They have something called Harold the giraffe http://www.lifeeducation.org.nz/ . They are learning about a Growth Mindset and we are too. They have had a good start to the year and we are looking forward to Skyping with them more and learning together.

By Yasmin

Growth Mindset Writing: Collaboration with Auroa Primary School

At Worser Bay School we have a big focus on Growth Mindset. We have talked about trying new things and challenging ourselves to step out of our comfort zone and grow our minds! 

The concept of a Growth Mindset was developed by psychologist Carol Dweck. She says that “In a Growth Mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment,”

This year we will be challenging ourselves by taking the #growyourmindchallenge 

Our students started the year by writing about something that challenged them in the holidays. We shared our writing with our friends at Auroa School and they have written their own Growth Mindset pieces, using our writing as models. 

The additional bonus was that because our students had an audience for their writing they were especially keen to do a good job!

Catch up with Room 3 at Auroa School

Orla: Today we skyped Auroa School. We talked about our learning. They were talking about how they got to choose their own learning around the STEM subjects. Some of them chose trapping and some grew bacteria from Mr Webb's phone.

Hana: We talked about our Inquiry. They had a camera that they put in the bushes so they can see the pests. They 3D printed platforms to put cat biscuits or peanut butter to attract the animals. Here are some of the images that they have captured.

Peter: The kids at Auroa School played the game that me and Ollie made up. They said that it was a bit like piggy in the middle. The aim of the game is to not let the person in the middle catch it. It was exciting that they played our game.

You can check out their blog: http://mrwebbauroa.blogspot.co.nz/

Maths Week Collaboration with our friends at Auroa Primary School

It's Maths Week!

Last Friday we wrote our own Maths problems for each other and our friends at Auroa Primary School. You can see our problems if you scroll down to Week 4 on our Online Maths Document, Term 3, 2017

Check out their Blog: Auroa Primary School/ Room 3 Blog

Some of the students at Auroa School solved some of our problems:

They wrote some problems for us: 

We have solved these problems and have put them on Seesaw. 

By Rico

By Flynn and Henry

By Elliot

By Caitlyn

Skype Buddies

Recently we have been Skypeing with Aurora School. We have been reading and sharing poems and art with them. We have been doing a display of poems and art to go with it we decided to pick an animal and did a poem and picture to go with it and the poem is about the wind wishing to be an animal. These are some animals we did cat, dog x3, giraffe ,whale, pig and fox .

Sometimes we talk about what we have been learning  at school or we read together or they show as some work they have been doing.They are doing a presentation for some of their work and they are going to send it to us.

Today they showed us a display that they have been making about us. If you come into the classroom, you can see the display that we made about them.

By Yasmin, Orla and Isabel

Reading our poems

Today we met with some kids from Auroa School. We shared our wind poems poems and they read poems to us. At the end we had a joke session. By Yasmin

Poems based on The wind is tired of being blamed for everything!

The Wind Is Not The One To Blame

The wind wants to be a Whale,

It wants to migrate through the seven seas,

It wants to splash its tail hard on the ocean,

It wants to move gracefully through the water,

It wants to be loved by everyone,

It wants to be a beautiful, graceful whale.

By Alba

The wind doesn't want to be blamed

The wind doesn’t want to be blamed,

It wants to be a pig,

it wants to roll around in mud,

it wants to eat scraps,

it wants to walk around with potato on it’s head,

it wants to walk around in gumboots,

It wants to flick its curly tail.

By Mia

The wind wants to be a fox.

It wants to pounce and bounce in the midnight sky.

With a push and a jump

And scuttle  and a rattle

And a flick of a tongue

By Isabel

The wind is tired of being blamed for everything

The wind wants to be a cat.

It wants to attack everyone one by one

With a tiny pounce,

a big meow ,

And  and  in a flick of its tail

The wind wants to be a snake

It slithers around buildings

With a tight squeeze,

A fierce strike,

And a rattle of its tail.

By Orla


The wind

The wind wants to be a dog

It is playful and listens

He just wants to do good

He wants a family to love him

He wants a home to sleep, eat and live in

And wag his tail

By Hana

The wind is tired of being blamed for everything

The wind wants to be a giraffe

It wants to gallop and prance around and be free

With a sway of its tail

And a kick of its hoof

It wants to be tall to see the beautiful view

The wind wants to not blamed for everything

By Yasmin

The wind is tired of being blamed for everything

The wind wants to be a kitten.

It wants to curl up on a couch with a bowl of milk

It wants to run around free

It wants people to pat it and give it a ball of yarn

The wind does not want to be blamed

The wind wants to be a puppy

It wants to bark when people say no

It wants to be loved  with every ones heart

It wants to find a bone easily

It wants to be allowed inside in bad weather

 

By Isabella

Connections with South Taranaki

Skype between Worser Bay School and Auroa School

A group of us have been skyping  to Auroa school.

Today we read a text about the weather. Auroa School shared some research and we shared some ideas about our upcoming Art Exhibition. We also shared some jokes.

We are planning to make a collaborative piece of artwork based on a poem for the art exhibition.

By Alba, Mia and Molly

Weather Poem: reading with our friends from South Taranaki

Today we read a poem with a reading group from Auroa Primary School. We read a tounge twister poem about the weather. Our school focus this term is about being connected and we are enjoying connecting with our friends in South Taranaki.

Weather - Poem by Eve Merriam

Dot a dot dot dot a dot dot

Spotting the windowpane.

Spack a spack speck flick a flack fleck

Freckling the windowpane.

A spatter a scatter a wet cat a clatter

A splatter a rumble outside.

Umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella

Bumbershoot barrel of rain.

Slosh a galosh slosh a galosh

Slither and slather a glide

A puddle a jump a puddle a jump

A puddle a jump puddle splosh

A juddle a pump a luddle a dump

A pudmuddle jump in and slide!

WBS and Auroa School Reading Groups: Little Red Riding Hood And The Wolf - Poem by Roald Dahl

A reading group at Worser Bay are meeting with a reading group at Auroa Primary School in Taranaki once a week. We are reading the same text and meeting on skype to discuss what we have read.  

We are excited about the collaboration!

This week we read Little Red Riding Hood And The Wolf - Poem by Roald Dahl 

We focused on reading the poem with fluency and expression. 

Students at Auroa School drew pictures of what we read and Worser bay added the captions.

WBS and Auroa Reading Groups Connect!

Reading groups connect
It’s great to connect with our friends at Auroa School!

Today one of our reading groups connected with a reading group in a school in the Taranaki countryside called Auroa School. We did some reading with them, were we did one paragraph and they did a paragraph.

We were reading: Awarua the Taniwha of Porirua

You can listen to the story: Awarua The Taniwha of Porirua

We managed to power through it

By Zach and Alastair

Earlier in the week some of us read half of the story and made predictions about what might happen:

We also summarised what we read then wrote our own versions. Here is one that we made on Puppet Pals: