Happy birthday Greta - what a fun Golden time eating yummy banana cake...

 Happy Birthday dear Greta - happy 7th birthday in SUPER SHARP 7.

Miss Burt cut the cake in half - 1 half for Greta 1 half for  Miss Burt. .....
but.....

Here is Miss Burt's half. 

But...Greta said "Miss Burt we can not be so greedy," ....so Miss Burt - said "Let's cut it again - into quarters...."

Arna got about 1/48th. To be honest the children got a great slice each - and then they got another small slice each.
We learnt that if we had patience we might get a lil bit more. 

Greta and her buddies...

George's big head. 

Greta and the lucky last girls...to get the Hansel and Gretal crumbs...

Week 10 SUPER SHARP SEVEN...

Here is George telling the class about his buddy Roast Beef.

Wow we had a special visitor in our classroom this morning - his name was Roast Beef. Roast Beef the class worked out to be 40 years old - (we think we are correct) or he could be older.

Roast Beef is George's favourite stuffed toy - George had a show and tell coupon to use - so he used it to bring Roast Beef in. 

This is George on his birthday with his wonderful class mates - we sang happy birthday to George in Te Reo Māori and also in English. Wow 7 in SUPER SHARP 7. 

Nara has been away for a whole week - Room 7 missed her so they made Nara amazing cards and they put them in the class mail box. Here is Taylor being a lovely friend to Nara and helping Nara read ALL HER CARDS. 

WOW super helpers in R7 - Charlie is helping Riliey sharpen his pencil. Maybe Charlie was sharpening his own pencil - Riley was being a nice friend and lent Charlie his pencil sharpener. 

FRIDAY - is home learning hand your book in day.
$50 auction dollars!
We do spelling testing on this day - please bring your book in.
Here is Tommy - ready to change his reading book and put his reading log and home learning book into the boxes =) yay.
We worked out that 24 people brought their book so that is $50 each.
Therefore - 24 groups of $50
24 x 50 =
Let's work that out....
The children went into pairs - we had 12 pairs (so double $50 = $100)
12 groups of $100
Therefore 12 x $100
= $1200

Making maths REAL...

Maths is used in all areas of our life...

With Totara Syndicate going on our Te Papa trip next Wednesday - it is important for the children to think about - what this trips costs - and why.

What to bring? And why?

What will we be doing? And why?

To break down the things they need to bring. 

Eg: Lunch - make up a good lunch - how much will this cost? We will use Supermarket brochures to find food that will make a good lunch and put in the price of what this costs: 

EG: 

 Counting up the money for our trip. Adding in 20's ($$) and then we worked out that 3 x $20 was the same as $50 + $10.