Calendar Art

Today the whole entire senior syndicate are doing calendar art. so, what is calendar art? it is when you are given a choice of different arts and then you are given a calendar with the are in the front page, here is my calendar art.

Feet First

Feet First

this week in reading we have been learning about questioning questioning is a reading skill that helps us understand the text.
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we used the questioning skill for the book feet first. it is about karate.

I was able to answer some of the questions by reading the further text

here is a picture below

word problems

We are learning to work out word problems. To complete the all the math, I used the splitting strategy, it is the one when you split both numbers into their tens and ones and do whatever you need to do with Them. The problems below are the problems with the workings outs.

Multiplication Word Problems

1. Ellen went to a garage sale to buy chairs. Each chair cost 15 dollars. How much money did Ellen spend for the 12 chairs she bought?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 12 × 15 = 2 × 15 = 30 10 × 15 = 150 150 + 30 = 180

2. Three-toed sloths have four legs. How many toes would 25 sloths have?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 3 × 4 = 12 12  ×  25 = 310

3. Albert has two snakes. The garden snake is 10 inches long. The boa constrictor is 7 times longer than the garden snake. How long is the boa constrictor?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 10 × 7 = 70

4. Albert’s cabbage patch has 12 rows of cabbage. In each row, there are 15 heads of cabbage. How many heads of cabbage does Albert have in all?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 12 × 15 = 110 5 × 2 = 10 10 × 10 = 100 100 + 10 = 110

5. Marie can bike at a speed of 12 miles an hour. How far can she bike in 31 hours?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 12  × 31 = 372 12 × 1 = 12 12 × 30 = 360

Division Word Problems

1. You have 24 cookies and want to share them equally with 6 people. How many cookies would each person get?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 24 ÷ 6 = 4

2. You are reading a book with 120 pages. If you want to read the same number of pages each night, how many would you have to read each night to finish in 10 days?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 120 ÷ 10 = 12

3. A cereal box holds 18 cups of cereal. Each serving is 2 cups. How many servings are in the whole box?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 18 ÷ 2 = 9

4. A box of books weighs 42 pounds. Each book weighs 3 pounds. How many books are there in the box?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 42 ÷ 3 =14 12 ÷ 3 =4 30 ÷ 3 = 10 10 + 4 = 14

5. Sue’s mother made 75 cookies. She put the cookies in bags, with 3 cookies in each bag. How many bags could she fill up?

Answer - Show your Workings Out. 75 ÷ 3 = 25 15 ÷ 3 = 5 60 ÷ 3 = 20 20 + 5 = 25

Post-It Note Questions

For Reading we are asking questions that might not be in the book. the book that we are reading is called Triathlete Sam. we each started with 2 post-it notes to fill up with questions. some people had too many questions and needed another one!!! I went up to 4 Post-Notes. see the slides below to see the questions and SOME  of the answers.

Voila!!!

Investigation 3

Investigation 3

We are doing investigation 3 today and we are doing a hard one. see the slides below to see what the question is and how we worked it out!!!