Room 13's Blog

Room 13 is a Year 5 class at Muritai School in Eastbourne, Wellington.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

World Maths Day!!! 03/03/10

Room 13 have been celebrating World Maths. http://www.worldmathsday.com/2010/

During maths time we looked at weight using grams and kg. We used the Pods to look at http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk and went on to their great interactive weight links!

Later that morning Room 13 used to the Pods to play a range of maths games that make learning basic facts fun and enjoyable.

Some of the websites used were: mathletics, tutpup, funbrain, coolmaths4kids, ictgames etc!













Monday, March 1, 2010

Bridge Challenge week 4 & 5

Last week during Technology we were given a challenge to construct a bridge using only one piece of A4 paper...that's it! The bridge needed to support the heaviest weight possible. In groups we trialed several different designs.


New Task:
To design and build a bridge made of fettucine!

Your bridge needs to:
* Support a 500 gram weight (a block of butter)
* Span a 35 cm gap.

Resources:
* 500 gram packet of dried fettucine
* Hot glue guns
* Hot glue!