Daily Archives: May 15, 2015

We have been learning all about trees and how they help humans and animals breathe.  Kai

I have learned how trees spread seeds to allow other trees to grow.  Declan

We had homework aksing us to explore the street to find leaves and match them on our Leaf Bingo.  It was good!  Jay

If a tree is living and you want to find the age of it you can use an increment borer to tell it’s age.  Kayleigh

I know the life cycle of a tree.  Emma

Today we were talking about how seeds spread in wind and water or animals can carry them on their fur, then when they land a new tree will grow.  Faith

If a tree is not living, you can tell how old it is by counting the rings inside the trunk.  Taylor

Division

We have been learning about Division this week.

“I think that if you don’t know your tables you will not be able to divide.”  Aiden

“This is because division is the opposite of multiplication.” Emma Louise

“I learned about grouping when working out division sums.”  Eva

“We learned how to share in division by giving each person one sweet at a time until they were all finished.” Tegan

As a treat for all our hard work throughout the week, Mrs Wightman let us investigate and explore ways of dividing using sweets.

Here we are dividing sweets by ‘sharing’.

Here we are dividing sweets by ‘grouping’.

Can you believe we all had to answer questions about division before Mrs Wightman would let us eat our sweets?

Luckily we all got our questions correct!! 😀