The Wright Family

 Today we did an activity that involved coordinating our listening skills with our motor skills.

We listened to a story aboout the Wright family and everytime we heard the word wright/right we had to pass an object to the right, and everytime we heard the word left we passed to the left.

For the first paragraph we were so focussed on the passing that we didn't really grasp the message of the story.

We improved as the story went on.

Boggle

 We played a game of boggle this morning - the first time for many.

The children have 16 letters and a time limit of 4 minutes to come up with as many 3 or more letter words as they can.

They are not allowed to repeat letters in a word but can use each letter in a new word.

This is great for spelling rule practice.

This is the boggle we did this morning.

Example

fingers

beat

beats

basil

ring

rings

whale

whales

Raising the Flag - Tech Challenge

The challenge was to raise a flag at least 20 cm.

It had to be a freestanding and we had to see both sides of the flag.

There was a lot more planning before the construction began this time.

Counting to 9

The children had the challenge of counting to 9. 

If 2 people said the same number at the same time they had to start from 1 again.

They discovered that if they went around the table they could reach 9.

We discussed how we could do it without going around the table or talking to each other.

Six Word Sentence Challenge

Our task for today.

Write a six word story that sums up something really important about ‘gifted’ for you.

Sim - a mathematical brain teaser

 

This week's question

What animal would make a great driver and why?

Here are a few of our responses.