Room 12 goes green!

This week as part of our Inquiry unit we have been looking at recycling, to minimise the amount of rubbish we send to the tip as landfill. Its amazing how much rubbish we make just by eating our lunch!

We set up our class recycling crates and got organised to classify and sort our lunchtime rubbish.

Its been tricky working out the difference between soft and hard plastics, and to work out what is ok to put in the school worm farm, but we are excited about doing our bit to reduce our impact on the environment.

Subitizing...?

This week in maths we have enjoyed playing different games to improve our ability to subitize. Subitizing is a fancy name for seeing smaller groups of dots within a larger group to work out how many dots there are, without actually counting them. It's a great way to develop basic facts knowledge and reinforces the idea that numbers can be shown in a lot of different ways: eg: 8 can be 5 and 3, 7 and 1, 4 and 4 or 6 and 2. 

Games we played include Deal and Copy, Memory Match and What's the difference. Whatever game was played, lots of fun and lots of learning was had by all!