Volume

The current sequence of work in mathematics is volume and today was a very hands-on approach. We recapped on linear measurements and surface area and then got stuck into volume. Firstly students made some basic 3D shapes and worked out their volume. Then they made open prisms on centimetre grid paper and then tested them against the 3D prisms they made from plastic interlocking cubic centimeteres. They worked in pairs. A few students have this job to finish for homework tonight (October 10th)

Cubic centimetres and that hand

Stay tuned to this page on the blog for more volume news.

Lesson 2 on Volume

Concept: To find volume work out how many layers there are and then multiply by the number of layers.

Students also learnt to use isometric paper to draw up some regular prism of their own, and then worked out the volume of each remembering to put cubic centimetres in the answer. The steps:

An impressive effort by AK, one of my grade 5 girls 

Lesson 3:

Today we had a double maths lesson and  students finished off their isometric drawings and then completed the following two activities. Constructing a 3D cubic cm shapes using the front view, side view and top view kept quite a few of them challenged for a while. 

Students had to make the shapes using the 3 views

We also introduced the formula of length x width x height to find the volume of regular prisms. Tomorrow we will be exploring this formula further with some discussion of the use of scales when representing the shapes.

The Historical Show Bags Sharing Afternoon

Well done 5/6C. I was really impressed with all the effort you put into your showbags on significant Australians. Your Historical Showbags were truly amazing. The afternoon went very smoothly and 5/6K were a wonderful audience. Below are some photos from the afternoon's events. Sorry can't show faces so have cropped a lot. I will be making a PhotoStory which students can have a copy of by the end of next week.

Burke and Wills Diorama by JS, pretty spectacular

Burke and Wills Diorama by JS

Some of our historical Australian Plasticine models

Captain Arthur Phillip and Vida Goldstein share a table

Mary Mackillop the only Australian Saint, this showbag was amazing!

The portrait of Vida is pretty spot on

Truganini display

By NS

Kelp model of a kelp bag used by Aboriginal women such as Truganini 

for carrying and storing  water by NS

Bulging at the seams: Peter Laor Show Bag

Making Weary Dunlop

Mary Mackillop goodies

Truganini

Weary Dunlop

Sharing our national treasure Edith Cowan

Sharing Ned Kelly, was he really that bad!

Sharing Albert Namatjira

John Flynn

John Flynn

Truganini

Peter Lalor

Edmund Barton

Peter Lalor

Albert Namatjira

Eddie Mabo

Weary Dunlop

Edward Hargraves bag sharing

John Flynn

Arthur Phillip

Reviewing Edmund Barton

Fashions in the day of Edith Cowan

Arthur Phillip

Fashions of the 1092's part of the Edith Cowan bag by EC

Detail from the Edith Cowan Historical Showbag by EC

Detail from Edith Cowan timeline by EC

A very innovative idea: Diary Entry by EC

Sharing Burke and Wills

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Aussie Slang: looking at colloquial language unit

This week's spelling list.

earbash hooroo
strewth hoon
grouse tucker
yabber gasbag
grog jocks
jumbuck kafuffle
lame-brained   lollywater
mongrel prang
squiz porkie
grouse snag
ridgy-digde yobbo

Our latest unit in literacy is Aussie Slang. Students will be making up their own booklets looking at some of our current slang and also looking at lost language in words and stories. We have the above three books in the classroom to refer to but if anyone has any of these types of books at home they would be greatly appreciated for use in the classroom over the next few weeks.

We started the unit by watching this amusing look at some Australian expressions.