Making sense of new learning: San Kyaw, Freeman, Joshua W, Affonso and Josh

1. 1. 85 people from PBS went to a Warriors game. ⅕ of them got to meet the players. How many people didn’t get to meet the warriors?  

    

   2. In Thailand there were 80  boats parked along the shores ¼ of them sailed away to find fish. How many of them stayed?

           

   3. 24 students went to the shop and ¼ came back to school. How many people stayed at the shop.

   
   

   4. 45 people went and played handball. ⅕ of them went to have something to eat. How many of them are left playing handball?

   
   

   5. 28 People from PBS were given a piece of pizza. 1/7 did not eat any. How many people did not eat any pizza?

   
   

   6. 36 people went to the NBA finals. ¼ did not get picked to play in the finals. How many people played in the NBA finals?

   
   

   7. Freeman had 300 pens he had to share ½. How many does he have know?

   
   

   8. Affonso had 18 pieces of pizza. He had to share with 7/9 of his pizza with others. How many pieces does he have left?

   
   

   9. They are 500 apples Josh had to pick 2/4 of the apples off the trees. How many are still on the trees?

   
   

   10. P.B.S got 1000 bananas they had to share 4/8 with other schools. How many do they have now?

   
   

Today our group collaborated to create some fraction word problems for our friends to solve. It helped us think about the strategies we use for finding fractions of whole numbers, and it will help them practise their strategies when they find the answers.

Winter Solstice by Sanujan and Joshua W

Sanujan and Joshua W have made an animation of the Winter Solstice. They have added in interesting facts. They have also added in how the Northern Hemisphere is currently Summer and the Southern Hemisphere is Winter.  Using their smart searching skills they have made a reference slide with their websites they have used. 

The balloon popped! By Dallas and Joshua W

We stood up and excitedly walked over to bows that were lying on the cobblestones silently waiting for us. We all picked the bows up at the same time. It was like we were in a race to see who would fire first.  

With the arrows notched onto the bowstring we placed our fingers around the knot. One finger above the knot and two fingers below. Like everyone else we lifted our bows and pulled the string towards our faces. You could hear the ting on the string as the arrow launched itself towards the target.

“Pop!” We couldn't believe our eyes. Both balloons popped at the same time we felt so proud when everybody clapped and cheered.    

Both of us had smiles on our faces as we picked up our arrows. Lucky only we know not all our arrows hit the target.

Today me and Josh wrote a recount about when the balloon popped. It's about how me and Josh stood up and walked over to bows that were lying down on the ground then put one finger above the knot and two fingers below. Like everyone else we lifted the bow only me and Josh got the balloon on the taggert at the same time!