{"id":10853,"date":"2021-06-07T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/?guid=ee08a214d5d3de6202bb542c448ad439"},"modified":"2021-06-07T13:58:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T01:58:57","slug":"koru-news-term-2-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/koru\/koru-news-term-2-week-5\/10853","title":{"rendered":"Koru News Term 2 Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kia ora wh\u0101nau,<\/p>

We have had another very busy fortnight, with the children engaging in a range of learning experiences. <\/p>

We have explored Space during our Learning Through Play, with the children building spacecraft using a variety of equipment including boxes and tubes. We also followed the Space theme in our Maths, as each child worked with a friend to make up groups of ten astronauts. Each time a group of ten astronauts was formed, they were then able to climb aboard the spacecraft, and some children were even able to make up ten groups of ten astronauts, all of whom were then able to leave the spacecraft, and enter the space station. The children practised their skip counting in tens, and also learnt a great deal about place value as they worked out the number of astronauts in their space craft and added on those who were still waiting to enter the space craft.<\/p>

The children have also been introduced to a new Maths game called 'Move and Prove'. In this game, they are given a statement, which might or might not be true. Children have worked out that they need to:<\/p>

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