More Maths Talk about Multiplication

Students in Rooms 14 and 15 have regularly been coming together to solve a variety of multiplication problems. We have been using coins and counters, happy 100's, large dotty arrays, and simple arrays to show our multiplication facts. It is always a busy hour and the children love to share their thinking.
Check out Mrs Dent's video and also view the photos of the students in action.
We love maths!

Hannah and Samantha enjoyed sharing their maths problem about 8 groups of 6.

Look at all the maths we found in this array.

Multiplication Strategy Video

In The Quarry, we enjoying learning multiplication strategies. Take a look at this video to learn how  to multiply 2 digit numbers using the "Large Dotty Array". Thanks Mrs Dent!

Watching Our Waste

Ready to learn about rubbish!

It's all go in Room 15! Back from camp and back on the bus to visit the CCC Metro Plant in Bromley as part of our Sustainability unit. In the classroom we have been looking into processes that help us to minimise the amount of rubbish we are producing. The programme that we had was focused on the Organics Processing Plant and gave us an inside look at the process that is involved in treating organic waste. The programme made the children want to investigate and establish their own 'waste free' environment and we all had a lovely afternoon and learned a lot! 

Think about what you do with your rubbish and try to reduce it as much as you can. We need to look after our beautiful planet!

Chris taught about the 5 R's of waste disposal

Look how much extra plastic there is in the mini chip bags!

Chris loves his compost

Hands on learning

Lovely warm compost in the making

Chris shows us the worm farms

Tiger worms - why do you think they are called this?

What a great way to dispose of our organic waste

Eadie and Ali getting up close and personal with the worms

Lunchtime!

Chris is pointing out where all the Red Bin waste goes

Lots of plastic going to the landfill

How would you reuse this rubbish? You'd be amazed at the ideas Room 15 children had.

Lukah is thinking hard about some other uses.

Someone else could be wearing these!

Chris was impressed with our new ideas about recycling and reusing

Woodend Camp

Team Koru had an action-packed start to Term Two with our camp to Woodend. The children had a wonderful time and were able to experience a range of fun, challenging and new experiences. Thank you kindly to all of our amazing parent helpers - the children loved having you there to share the fun and we would not have been able to go without you! 

Have a look at some of the photos we took of our time there.