Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Rocks all around us

We used calculators in Numeracy and investigated what happened when we add tens to numbers. We saw that the unit number always stays the same. In literacy we had sentences in which the words were in the wrong order. We had to change the sentences so they made sense.
Who can stand up the longest on one leg. Temi and Brogan had a competition. Brogan found this task easy but Temi couldn't do it. This was because we made Temi stand with his foot next to the wall. We realised that this wasn't fair and that they should both have been tested the same way. It is the same in science, to make a fair test we mut treat them both the same way. We looked at what houses are made of and found out that they are mostly made from rocks. Glass is made from sand and limestone, floor tiles from clay, some roofs made from slate and then there's bricks and cement.

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