Fractions

WALT: Find fractions of a quantity

1. Matthew is a huge rugby league fan and has 28 NRL cards. One quarter of them are Melbourne Storm cards. How many of them are Melbourne Storm cards?

STRATEGY:

28 ÷ 4 = 7

1x7=7

SOLUTION SENTENCE: Their a seven Melbourne storm card.

2. In Mark’s class there are 18 children. ⅓ of them are boys. How many boys are in Mark’s class?  thirds

STRATEGY: 18 ÷ 3=6

6x1=6

SOLUTION SENTENCE:

There are six boys in Mark’s class

3. Luke has 32 first cousins. ¾ of them live in Auckland and the rest of them live in Wellington. How many of Luke’s cousins live in Auckland?

STRATEGY:

32÷4=8

4x2=8

SOLUTION SENTENCE:

Luke has 8 cousins in Auckland

Names For God

These are different names for God

Jonny Wartmon

On Tuesday 18th we had a graffit artist visit us. His name was Jonny Wartmon. He painted at Glen Talyor school. He painted a Turtle.

His hometown is Christchurch and he likes New Zealand more than any other places in the world. He also said that to finish a piece of art it take an hour or a month.

Jonny said if you want to follow your dreams go for it and waork hard.Wartmon also said he wants to paint the sky tower from top to bottom.

Jonny Wartmon is 32 years old. His old school was LinWood college. After the questions Jonny took us outside for a drawing.

He was going to draw the sunshower. My favoutie part was when Jonny Wartmon block wrote


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Connectedness

We have been learning about how water connects us all. We chose an Island to the Pacific ocean to create a presentation about.