Pou Whenua Poles

We completed our Pou Whenua poles (poles denoting a place of significance) this week and are thrilled with our efforts. We designed our heads to show off our places of origin and the cultures we associate with. As you can see they are made from recycled milk bottles which we painted. They now reside outside our classroom and our the front of the library.

William - jumping to a tidy number

Here William will how you how he works our problems by jumping up first to a tidy number. He has split the number five into 2 + 3 to do this.

Ava - using place valued to find the unknown

Ava has been working with place value.  Here she is explaining her strategy.  I think she may have forgotten that the seven is seventy so the number she is looking for is forty not four, but hasn't she done a wonderful job.