As it was national chocolate week this week, and one of Mrs Gordon’s most favourite things in the whole world, we decided to have a chocolate focus this week…
For homework we had chocolate maths questions and during our problem solving numeracy sessions this week we had to solve chocolate mysteries. These involved lost of different mathematical concepts including place value, co-ordinates, fractions, roman numerals etc. One group had to work out the smallest number of breaks for a 100 square bar to be broken into individual squares…
Chocolate production in Brazil was part of our weekly research. We learnt a lot of facts and watched a video which showed us the journey from pod to supermarket shelf. We were all surprised at how long the process took, and how manually labour intensive it was. Here we are with some cocoa pods, and our own chocolate treat that Mrs Gordon gave us today for working so hard this term.
In Portuguese this week we learned about colours, and played matching pairs. Everyone picked them up very quickly and we noticed connections to Spanish with colours like yellow – amarillo in Spanish and amarelo in Portuguese.
We received lots of praise this week for helping the teachers as timekeepers at parents night. We were courteous, accurate and polite; and added these to our growing repertoire of skills for learning, life and work.
Happy holidays!
Mrs Gordon and P7a
Wow u look like you had a load of fun