West-a-Maths

Go Team Kaniere! 

Rūma Kererū students have their fingers crossed for Abby, Greta, Caleb and Andrew as they head off  to the West-a-Maths competition at Grey Main today. They have a tough task ahead. They will be using all their maths skills to answer 20 questions within 30 minutes as they compete against other Year 6 teams from across the West Coast. We are waiting to hear how they do.

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Learning to Create Flow Charts

28th May

Drawing Flow-Charts 

So far this term the class have been learning to write explanations that tell their reader how or why something happens. After watching a small TED talk video clip that explained how baby turtles grow. It also showed some of the dangers that turtles face. Students discussed in buddies all the steps they could remember. They wrote notes about these and then watched the video again. The next step was to break the different steps and stages down into a flow-chart of events that chronicled the life of a sea turtle. Drawing pictures using google draw or the shapes tool on google slides allowed the students to 'see' the different steps.

You can see below examples of Belinda, Greta and Jaidon's learning so far. Keep watching for future updates!

Jaidon, Belinda and Greta's Planning Flowchart