Maths Activity - Graphing Colours

Our class das been starting to look at graphing as a way of showing different ways of showing 'How Many'.  Today we studied Smarties(TM).  First we estimated how many there were in the packet.  Then we estimated what the different colours might have been and then we estimated how many of each colour we might have in our packet.  We then opened the packets and wrote down the exact colours and numbers of each colour we had in our packet.  We then drew a Column Graph to show the different colours and how many of each we had.

The Science of Sound

This afternoon our class investigated the sounds that are natural, man made, used for communication and music.  We looked at lots of different things that made sounds that our classmates had brought from home.  There was a big fishing reel that clicked when you wound the handle, a door bell, a flute, an iPod Touch, a mobile phone, an iPad, a clock and a clock radio, a harmonica, a DSi, a whistle, a timer and some other things.  We found that we use our voices to communicate and that there are lots of different sounds in our daily lives like brids chirping, cars, radios, leaves rustling and many others.  Sound is very important to us and it helps us to learn.

Our First Post

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Today we learned about chocolate.  We are taking a food safari around the world this term.  So far we have been to Australia (we made damper), Malaysia (we made Nasi Goreng), India (we made Chicken Korma) and Africa (where the cocoa bean is grown).  We learned that Ghana (a country in Africa) produces cocoa and that chocolate is made from cocoa.  We melted chocolate and dipped banana, strawberries, dohnuts and marshmallows into the chocolate to eat at recess.  We tried 2 different chocoltaes, dark and milk.