Our First Day

How lucky am I to have such an amazing class!!  I loved my first day back and can't wait to see all the smiling faces tomorrow.  What a team!  We began 'All About Me' booklets today and we worked on these when we finished work.  These will be completed by Friday.  Our books are all sorted and organised ready to use.  We already have pictographs in our math's books.  We have a reward system using raffle tickets and from these we earn 'Fly Buys' so we can work towards rewards.  Today we began reading our shared book and already we have learnt a lot about prediction.  We used our experiences to make predictions as we read the bok.  We came up with a shared language as we read - being fair, rules are needed to keep us safe and happy, agreements, treaty, without rules their may be disagreements.  We are keen to learn more about NZ's Treaty, 'The Treaty of Waitangi' because many of us did not know much about it.  With a holiday on Monday for 'Waitangi Day' we are keen to learn more. 
Visit the label 'Waitangi Day' on the side bar on the right to learn more.

Eye Colour Pictograph Findings

Thirteen children have blue eyes, 7 have  brown and 2 have green eyes.

Twenty two children were surveyed.

There were no grey eyes in Room 16.

The difference between the least and the most was eleven.

Over half the class has blue eyes!

Statistics - Graphs

Today we learnt about tally charts and pictographs.  We surveyed ten class members and asked them this question...
What colour eyes do you have?
We recorded our data on a tally chart.
We also wrote a title for our pictographs.
Tally Charts
Tally charts help us collect and organise data. The data in a tally chart should be clear and displayed in easy-to-count groups of five.

Pictographs

Pictographs use pictures to represent data, making it easy to compare data visually. To read a pictograph, you start by looking at the key to see how many of a given item each picture stands for. Over the next weeks we will use a key with a scale of one, two, or five, meaning each picture represents one, two, or five of that item.

Tomorrow we will post some photos of our work.

RESPECT

WALT...understand what respect is ...use respect in the classroom and playground

Welcome back! 2012!  Can you believe it.  We are about to embark on a new school year so can't wait to meet all my new students. Today was 'Teacher Only Day' so it was great to see all the teachers and staff again. Tomorrow I will report back on our first day.  Can't wait - very exciting.  I have a year 3/4 class this year so looking forward to that.  We will get to know each other then begin exploring Treaties/Rules and our school value of RESPECT, as well as friendship and what it means to us.