The past few weeks our class learnt about times zones in Australia. We looked at why we have times zones. We have them because the sun does not come up yet in some country when others have the sun. The passes in Australia through the east then later it passes through the west.

The times in Australia now are:

If Victoria,Tasmania and New South Wales were 12:00pm (Midday).

South Australia are behind  half an hour = 11:30am

Western Australia would be 9:00am because they are 3 hours behind during Daylight Saving.

Northern Territory would be 10:30 am as they are an hour and a half behind during daylight saving.

Queensland do not have daylight saving and are one hour behind. It would be 11:00am.

We are run on Greenwich mean time. Greenwich is a place near London where the time is based. We are -10 hours in Greenwich mean time. And Greenwich is also where other country time is based.

The class had a task to fly around Australia and work out the different times we get and leave there. Mr Sharp showed us a strategy. It was to use a time line. That strategy helped me and I’m guessing it helped others. It is a great strategy. It is one I will use when working out time zones.

I had fun working with time zones.

Lachlan S for 5P learning

Numeracy and halving
Lately in our Numercay we have been focusing on Division. Halving is a great strategy with division if the sum end with  divided by 4, 2 6 or 8 because they are even numbers.
We have had tests on division and have learnt when and how to use halving in those equations.
Also we have learnt when there are remainders, there’s different ways to write it instead of for eg. r 6.
If the sum is 52 divided by 7 it would be 49 with a remainder of 3.
You could write it like this,  3/7 in fractions, or in decimals 0.42
I have learnt many different ways to say remainders and have strategies on division problems.
Joel for 5P learning.

Recently we have been focusing on shapes.
Yesterday we did an activity on mathletics on the board as a class.
In the afternoon, we had to pick a shape and make the shape out of paper, though you could use other materials, the challenge was using paper.
We did this individually, in any way you would like to make the shape.
When we had finished our shape, on a paper had to write the name of the shape, the vertices, faces, and edges. Also we had to measure the volume of it. ( LxWxH ).
I learnt from this activity, when you are making a shape out of paper, you have to get the flaps right and all corners to have a successful shape. It was challenging, but most of all fun was reached.

Joel for 5P learning

3D shapes.

This week 5P have been learning about 3D shapes. In class we have learnt how many vertices, edges and faces some shapes have.
For example:
A cone has 1 edge, 2 faces and 1 vertice.
A cylinder has 2 edges, 3 faces and 0 vertices.

In class we watched a video called 3D shapes I know. Then we had to answer what shapes were what and whatever their names were.

By Gabby from 5P learning

This week our class learnt lots of new things and I and going to tell you one of those things. We learnt how to do the compensation and split math strategies. In the split strategy basically you are making a big smaller and easier to multiply for e.g.: 67 x 6
So you do
60 x 6 = 360
and 7 x 6 = 42
and then you add them
360 + 42 = 402
That is the split strategy
Matt signing off for 5P learning

This week in 5P we have been learning about Split Strategy!
What is Split Strategy?
Well, Split Strategy is Splitting the number that has to be multiplied.
For E.g.
12 x 6
10 x 6 = 60
2 x 6 = 12
60+12 = 72
The Answer is 72!
Split Strategy is helpful for when you are trying to figure out hard sums like:
34 x 7 or 56 x 9!
Maybe next time you will use Split Strategy when you Struggling with multiplication!

By Emily from 5P the Amazing World of Learning

Volume

2 Stars and a wish is a graphic organiser we use to reflect on our learning. It is a simple, yet effective way to show what we have learned and what we still are unsure of. Here is Gabby’s Reflection:

Today we used containers from home to explore volume and capacity.
We had to place the containers in order of capacity. Some had the measurements in milliliters, so we had to convert it into cubic centimeters. Here is our order.

Capacity ordering