Egg-citement in Room 7

What an egg-citing start to the week. Today as part of the Keeping Ourselves Safe programme we have become chief babysitters of eggs. Yes, eggs. Fresh, not boiled, precious eggs. 

Four the next four days each pair of classmates have to care for their egg at all times. This is so that we can learn about all the hard work that goes into looking after others. Children have blankets for their eggs, and are responsible for their eggs 24/7. 

Children had to pick a partner, someone they could rely on to also look after their eggs as they have shared custody.
This is going to be an egg-citing challnege, a bit of an egg-speriment, and we hope that they all have an egg-ceptional week learning how to become egg-stremely great parents!

(from left, clockwise) Loto & Charlie with their egg 'Eric', Nirvana & Whitney with 'Taylor', Newsam & Salote

Amelia and Mary decorating their egg 'Caroline', and Davarni and Shannon decorating their egg. 

Unfortunately however, there have already been two fatalities with two teams eggs accidentally being dropped.  Very unfortunate events, but taught us just how careful we need to be. 

Simeon and Maselino with their Egg.... which suffered an unfortunate event.

Another unfortunate casualty. 

Holiday Home Learners

We're over a week through the term break and I'm so impressed to see that some of the tamariki are keeping up with their writing and math with the use of their digital tools. 

Well Done Tamati, Setaita and Nirvana who have logged into Xtra Math to practice their basic facts knowledge. 

Ka pai to Trent, Tamati, Danny, Nirvana and Loto who have blogged during the holidays 

Finally Good work Loto, Danny, Alex, Nirvana, Sean, and Setaita  who have been earning points on StudyLadder. 

Holiday Home Learning

With one day of term 2 left each child went home with a home learning pack today.

In it was a reading log, some creative blogging prompts, and some mathematics strategies and practice activities. 

With two weeks of no school it's time to keep cozy, and take ownership of your own learning.  

If you want help with your maths here's a few videos that will teach you some smart strategies! Share them with whānau and see if they can do the problems too!

Happy home learning Glenbrae tamariki. Ka mau te wehi. 

Solve fraction problems using repeated addition.

Solve division problems by using your times tables. 

Solve subtraction problems like 85 - 39 = _  

by making the second number a "tidy number"

Solve fraction problems like 2/5 of 25 =

Solve multiplication problems like 4 x 27 = _ 

by splitting the bigger number into tens and ones.