GROWING WITH GROWING PATTERNS

Today our room was a 'patterning paradise'.
We had so much fun patterning, that we patterned for hours!
Mrs M couldn't stop us. We didn't even want to go out for Snack!

We were investigating GROWING patterns and we amazed Mrs M and even ourselves with what we discovered!
Can you work out the rule for each of these patterns?
Can you represent each pattern with a number pattern?
Can you apply the rule to tell what comes next?

Pattern 1:

Pattern 2:
Pattern 3:

Pattern 4: this one's tricky but if you apply the rule, you should be able to work out the starting number, even though you can't see all the blocks.

Pattern 5:

Pattern 6:

We kept this number pattern going all the way to 99 and we didn't have to keep applying the rule because we found a shortcut - a pattern in the pattern.

1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 _ _ _ ....

Can you keep it going? Can you see what we saw?

LEAVE A COMMENT.

WE'D LOVE TO KNOW YOUR ANSWERS!

'SURVEY SAYS'...OUR MATHS INVESTIGATIONS

Remember our post about A POLL NEEDS A...

Since then we have been

finding out about ourselves

as a class. We have been
ACTIVE

INVESTIGATORS.

After deciding on a question, we first had to GATHER the DATA.

We RECORDED the data using ticks or tally marks.

We discovered it was a good idea to write down names as well, so that we knew who we had asked.

But at this stage, it wasn't easy to see the RESULTS of our questioning. So.....

we had to be EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATORS and DISPLAY the DATA.

Some of us chose to DRAW a BAR GRAPH by hand and others chose to produce a BAR GRAPH on the computer by inserting a 'table' into a 'Word' document.

Now it was easy for us to see and INTERPRET the results of our surveys.

Our next step is to post about our learning on our own blogs.
You can access the results of Courtney's, Johanna's and Tierney's investigations by going to the sidebar, finding LABELS and then NUMERACY BLOCK.
All of our results will be posted by early next term, so don't forget to come back and check out the results!

BRYCE'S PET

Now that you know the CLUE to telling the difference between a STICK INSECT and a PRAYING MANTIS is to look at the 'front legs', have a look at BRYCE'S PET.

It lives in a tree in his yard.

Can you see it?

It's really well camouflauged!

Look closely at it's 'FRONT LEGS'.

GO TO Brisbane Insects.com.

Look again at the pictures of STICK INSECTS and PRAYING MANTIDS.

WHAT IS IT?

LEAVE US A COMMENT.

DON'T FORGET TO GIVE US A REASON FOR YOUR ANSWER.

IDENTIFYING OUR INSECT- THE PROCESS

Today we took on the role of ACTIVE INVESTIGATORS to find out just what type of insect our 'visitor' last Friday was.

We got onto the website BRISBANE INSECTS AND SPIDERS. Mrs P, Mrs McD and Mrs R read the information about STICK INSECTS and PRAYING MANTIS for us.

We looked at the pictures and compared them to ours.
Then we left a comment to share our thoughts about what the insect was .
We read all the comments. We tried to work out how many thought it was a STICK INSECT and how many thought it was a PRAYING MANTIS but it was hard because some people had left two comments!

So we decided to make a PICTURE GRAPH to record our DATA.
Each of us drew our face on a small square and glued it on a chart.

Now it was easy to see that most of the class thought our visitor was a PRAYING MANTIS.

We decided to number the squares so that we would not have to count them every time we looked at the graph.

We had to number them all the way to 22!

Now it was REALLY easy to see the results.

22 children in our class think our 'visitor' was a PRAYING MANTIS.

5 children in our class think it's a STICK INSECT.

Does this mean our 'visitor' WAS a PRAYING MANTIS?

WE THINK SO.

But to be sure we have emailed BRISBANE INSECTS AND SPIDERS and asked them to help us identify our insect friend.

DO YOU THINK THEY WILL AGREE WITH US...THAT IT IS A PRAYING MANTIS?

LET US KNOW IN A COMMENT. DON'T FORGET TO TELL US 'WHY?'.

NAOMI'S RAD 'R' POEM

Rory

in a race,

racing roosters

round a road.

POPPING POPCORN P,P,P

Yesterday we learnt more about the sound that the letter p makes.
Look at how many words we know that begin with the p sound!

popcorn

pie

pancake

pizza

pineapple

peach

plum

papaya

pear

peas

purple

pink

penguin

puppet

Patrick

pig

platypus

pirate

pretzels

pumpkin

panda

poster

picture

pencil

paper

playdoh

plasticine

pork

porcupine

polar bear

play

plate

pigeon

pet

princess

We suggested the word 'phone' but we

could not hear the p sound. Mrs M

told us that ph makes the 'f' sound.

1M can you think of any more words

that start with the p sound?

Look around your home to get

some prompts.

Here are some clues:

What do you lay your head on in bed?

When you ask for something you must

remember to say........

Spaghetti is a type of this.

Send a comment to our blog and tell

us your p words.

*UPDATE!!!* Friday 16 Feb

Congratulations, Jarvis on being the first to answer these clues!

The words were:

pillow

please and

pasta

Here are the other p words that have been already been left on our comments.

Peter

park

paint

pikelet

pin

pole

ping-pong

poodle

policeman

postman

pebble

paradise

Papa

Poppa

Pa

potato

Poppy

prince

pocket

polo

peacock

pine

(Well done to Patrick, Lauren, Courtney, Sophia, Johanna and Jarvis for sending us these p words.

You have been practising your 'lip-poppers'!

I am very PROUD of you......Mrs M)

THAT'S 60 WORDS, 1M. CAN WE GET TO 100?

*ANOTHER UPDATE!!* Monday 19 Feb

Here's more p words left on our comments (Perfect posting to Jarvis, Flynn, Kimi, Jacob and Mrs M)

pocket

point

push

pull

putt (Jacob played putt-putt)

plant

pat

peanut

Playstation Portable

popping

pen

perfect

THAT'S 75 WORDS! ONLY 25 TO GO!!!

*AND THERE"S MORE...TUESDAY 20th FEB (Thankyou Ben!)
Paula (his Aunty's name)

python (Ben had one in his backyard)

print

principal

prize
1M THAT'S 80 WORDS!! IF YOU ALL THINK OF ONE MORE WORD, WE'LL HAVE MORE THAN 100!!! START LISTENING AND LOOKING FOR THOSE 'LIP-POPPER' WORDS!