Year 5 Mathematical Magicians

Subtraction Magic Trick!

By Clara L and Matthew K

In Mathematics in Year 5, we are learning about Addition and Subtraction. In Subtraction, Miss Lee showed us a very smart subtraction trick. This trick is for subtraction sums with lots of zeroes and it must end with a zero. These are the steps to a subtraction trick that will make you extremely smart! There will also be an example.

Step 1: Write the problem.            9, 000, 000

                                              -     874, 392 = ?

Step 2: Take away 1 from the first number.       8, 999, 999

                                                                    -   874, 392 =?

Step 3: Figure out the problem.    8, 999, 999

                                       -   874, 392                                  

                                              ________

                                             8, 125, 607                                                           

Final Step: Plus the 1 that you took away on the 2nd step.  8, 125, 607 +1= 8, 125, 608

So, you can do a sum with 50 zeroes and get the answer right!

The Little Refugee

The Little Refugee

By: Natalie and Ashlia

We have been reading about the Little Refugee. The Little Refugee is written by Anh and Suzanne Do. The story is based on Anh Do’s journey to Australia. This story is about hungry, thirsty and poor people who have to leave Vietnam and travel to Australia. While they were on their journey the refugees' food and drink is ruined by a storm. Later on the refugees saw a boat. They were so happy until they saw a pirate came out of the boat. The pirates boarded the refugee's boat and stole all of their gold and jewellery. They even tried to throw a baby over the side of the boat. Luckily the pirate changed his mind. Before the pirates left the refugee's boat one of the pirates gave them a bottle of water that saved their lives. When they arrived in Sydney a nun gave them clothes but their was only one outfit for a boy and the other one was a girls outfit. Anh's mum had to dress Anh's little brother Koha as a girl.

Here is what Year 5 had to say about the book

"It is a good book for children to read about refugees." Clara.P

"The book was interesting." Stephanie

"It is a great book!" Trish

"It was awesome!" Sinead

"You always want to know what is next." Clara.L

"It was pretty good." Matthew.K

"I rate it 8 out of 10." Emily.B

"It is a excellent book." Ryley

What was your favourite part of the book?

Year 5 News Feed: What is your staus?

      

    By  and

In Year 5, students have amazing thoughts on their minds. To share these with our classmates, Miss Lee and other teachers, we have our class news feed.  Each student has their photo on our class door.  Everyone has a spot to posts their status to our class news feed.

The status is a good way for teachers to find out what we are thinking about and try to make Year 5 a better place for us. In your status you can say what you want to happen in the year, what you have enjoyed about the day or week. The status can be creative as you want.  It is helpful as it allows other students to see what is on your mind.  We might even be able to help you complete your goal in Year 5.

Year 5 has this card to help us be Cyber Smart in what we say. Year 5 has THINK which stands for:

T= is it True?

H= is it Helpful?

I= is it Inspiring?

N= is it Necessary?

K= is it Kind?

Cluster Swimming Carnival

Cluster Swimming Carnival

By Sinead and Matthew D

On the 10th of February 2014 some swimmers from Year 5 represented Christ The King in the cluster swimming carnival.  The Year 5 representatives were:

Sinead: 50m butterfly.

Jamie: Junior relay.

Matthew D: 50m butterfly, 50m breaststroke, 50m freestyle, 50m backstroke and the senior relay.

Matthew K:  Junior relay, 50m freestyle.

The weather was a bit overcast and cold in the morning but got a little hotter during the day. The swimming carnival was held at Revesby swimming centre.

It was fun and everyone enjoyed themselves and had a go.

Congratulations to our swimming representatives!          

Monet Style Lilies

Our Little Monet Art 

By Jade and Georgia  

We have created our very own Monet water lilies. We used orange, yellow, white, and red paint for the flowers. We also included green lily pads and a blue background for the water. (Some artists add green to the water).  Monet is an impressionist and his paintings are not clear and so we smudged our paintings so it looks fuzzy. We had three flowers to paint and cut them out when they dried up. We did the same with the lily pad then stuck the flowers together and then put the lily pad under the flowers. We lifted the petals from the flowers to make a 3D effect.

Whole Number

Smartie Maths

by Jamie, Thomas, Matthew K and D

We are looking at whole number in Mathematics.  On Monday we did an exciting activity called smartie maths. First we opened a little box of smarties. Then we arranged the smarties from highest to smallest according to the number value. We arranged them according to the colour code for their place value e.g green=1.

For example these smarties have a number of

11, 051, 301.

Then we had to work out who had the highest number in year 5.  It was Matthew D with 52,123,200. Then we had to answer questions about the number for example we had to write the number in words and figure out the expanded notation for the number.  We also had to write 5 questions for a partner.

What did you learn from the Smartie Maths lesson?  

Learning in Year 5

Year 5 is an exciting year at CTK.  What are you looking forward to most this year?  What would you like to learn this year?  What is your goal for this year?  Comment below with an answer to one of these questions.