Posts by Sara Sprague
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Start of 2024 Gallery
An exciting year ahead. A February 1 gallery of some of the great learning started in each class.
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Cam’s Wallabies
Cameron Moore is a Rotorua teenager who identified a problem in his local taonga and created a technological solution to protect the taonga.
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Meaty Mathematics
Wairakei Primary School teachers have been learning how to get their students to engage in meaty mathematics tasks.
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Managing Minecraft
Room 3 students know how to work out the area and perimeter of squares and rectangles and their teacher knows how to set a purposeful Minecraft learni…
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Dealing to Decimals
Training for the inter school Mathematics competition is underway for Years 5 and 6 students.
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Swoop Week
A “swoop” is a descriptive writing activity where students respond to an image.
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Skill Versus Luck
Rather than skill versus luck, it is actually a combination of both skill and luck that makes an effective math game.
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A Skinny Problem
As part of “A River Runs Through it “ inquiry, Room 3 is learning about the local waterways.
