This week we have been revising how to say the number 0.1, 0.3, 0.4 etc after a particular number.  Our challenge is to take photos around the school to represent the problem Miss Skelton has given us. 

Today's challenge was to find out what A.M and P.M stood for and explain the meaning.  Congratulations to Edward and Maupi who succeeded in this challenge. Here is what they learnt.

A.M=anti meridian means before midday
P.M=post meridian means after midday

Over the last few weeks we have been looking at time. We have been learning how to read analogue, digital, and 24 hour clocks. We also looked at how to read calendars and the international time zones. This is what we have learnt so far.

"The world rotates and also orbits around the sun." - Timi
"You put a 0 before the hours in am time in the 24 hour clock e.g. 0100 = 1:00am." - Edward
"The earth rotates 360degrees in 24hours." - Yasmine
"There are 8760 hours in one year." - Harrison
"It takes on 1 year (365 days) for the earth to orbit the sun." - Jacob
"There are 24 time zones in the world." - Erin
"I learnt how to read a calendar.  I learnt how to find out what date fell on which day." - Brayden
"100 years make up a century." - Maupi
"I was learning about 12 hour clocks and 24 hour clocks.  The short hand shows the hours and the long hand shows the minutes." - Titan
"There are 5minutes between each number on the clock and 60 minutes makes an hour." - TK
"1000 years = 1 millenium." - TK
"There are 87,600 hours in one decade." - Harrison
"When you go to the west of the Prime Meridian Line you take away 1 hour, and when you go to the east, you add an hour.  See our map below." - Yasmine

This page is for our numeracy cross grouping class. We are year 5 & 6 students and we cross group for maths so that we work with other students that are at the same level as us. We are working at middle to upper Stage 6.


Last term we worked on place value, converting decimals into fractions and fractions into decimals. Last week we learnt a new addition strategy (which means a way to solve problems). The strategy we learnt was to solve problems like 22 + ____ = 101 by jumping up in 'tidy numbers' (numbers that end in a 0) and then subtracting a little number. Our challenge was to show how we would solve this problem using materials - we were not allowed to write down what we would do. This is how we did it!