Baking Time -Rice Bubble Cone Christmas Trees

Today we made 3d shape cones out of 2d semi circles and filled them with white chocolate and rice bubbles. 

 Here is the recipe: 

 Rice Bubble Cone Christmas Trees 

2 Ingredients is all that’s needed for these cute little Christmas Trees 

Ingredients: 

200g White Chocolate 

200g Rice Bubbles

Other Equipment: Baking Paper cut into semi-circles, White Icing in a tube for decorating, Various Sprinkles for decorating, Icing Sugar for dusting. 

Steps: 

1. Roll the baking paper semi circles into cones by using the middle of the flat side to create the point. Fasten with sticky tape. 

2. Melt the white chocolate for 60 seconds in the microwave. 

3. Add the rice bubbles and mix until they are evenly coated. 

4. Spoon the mixture into the cones, pressing down with the back of a spoon as you go to make sure it is as compacted as possible. Stand the filled cones point side down in a glass to hold them, and refrigerate for 1 hour. 4. Once refrigerated, peel off the baking paper to reveal your beautiful Christmas Tree! 

Decorate however you like. I used a squeezy tube of white icing to stick on some stars, but you can really use any kind of decoration you want, or leave them plain. It’s totally your creative project! 

 Watch a modified Video of the process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqXdQLG0OS4

Amazing questions - making the links.

Mathematical language is a great part of understanding mathematics. It can be the key to connecting ideas and when to apply mathematical concepts. 

Here we look at how our number system helps us convert types of measurement.  

We can see the words gives us a clue as to how it relates.  

Vera asked " why do all the words have metres in it"

" what does centi mean?"

- this discussion led to the meaning of century - being 100." Then we made the links.. So what does milli mean... 

This is the best part of teaching, when students direct and ask the questions and discussions occur so meaning is authentic to them.  

Recording measurements

Together we are recording our measurements and talking about the different ways we can record this. 

Measuring our foot steps..

Today we started our measurement challenge sponsored by " Be Healthy, Be active." 

Can we walk the entire length of NZ in a day? 

This activity is designed for year 5/6 students.  However in our small groups we are challenging ourselves and learning  so much along the way.  

Here we are measuring our foot step with a piece of string.

Is this the best and most accurate measurement?? 

We tried again.. 

 

After we found out the length we went around measuring various objects. 

Here we decided everyone's foot step is a different size. We all had different measurements. 

We noticed it's not always the tallest person with the biggest foot step. 

We discussed which foot steps were the biggest and smallest.  Using ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd....) we could order the steps. 

We are looking forward to our next step! 

Sharing our classroom maths

Today Isabelle came back and shared her fantastic learning she had completed in class.

She was given a number (100) and was asked to create her own problem.  She used so many maths concepts in a wonderful word problem. Check it out below!! 

Fantastic work, please come and show us anytime!! 

 

Nicole and Shavaun have been making posters in their classroom showing the strategies they can use when adding or multiplying numbers together. 

You explained this very well Girls!! 

thank you for sharing and teaching the others. 

Teaching others

When you are able to teach someone else and answer their questions you must have real understanding of the Maths.

Learning from the experts today. 

Making and breaking numbers: if we can master this then we can add, subtract, multiply and divide more easily! 

Geometry Today...

Current research states that geometry and in particular spatial skills is a key to mathematical success.

These skills also support the future STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers.

How do we include Spatial Awareness in our mathematic classes?? 

Visualising shapes and talking about how these shapes are made.  (Composing/decomposing shapes)

Here are some clues of our mystery shape:
We gave one clue at a time - most children found this relatively straight forward until clue 5, We worked as a group to solve it and then watched a youtube clip to get a greater understanding;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcuzXwtamJc

Answer:

A parallelogram

Can you see the multi link cubes used to create the parallelogram ( do you notice the angles are the same when they are opposite each other?). 

From there we looked at other shapes - rectangles and triangles and saw how this parallelogram was composed.  This activity gave us wonderful mathematical discussions. 

Why time is spent on the student's strategies and thinking

When there are many ways to be successful, many more students are successful.

Tekau Ma waru

Making the links in our number system....

We are recording a given number on our thousands chart.

Tekau ma whitu - having a Maths brain or not?

Brains Grow and Change from Citizen Film on Vimeo.

Tekau Ma Ono

Understanding the links between multiplication and division. 

Tekau Ma whitu

Here are our groups of six balloons for each child. 

We are using the hundreds board and abacus to count in 6s.. 

Tekau Ma Ono

Seeing patterns, working out how numbers are made up so we can work with them in many ways. 

Thanks Shavaun for being our teacher! 

Tekau Ma whitu

Here we have some balloons... 

We need to give 5 children, six balloons each. How many balloons do we need altogether? 

Special Interest Group - 20a

Creating packages to transport our biscuits home. 

Making our own arrays with our biscuits

Working with Room 24

Using our feet to answer our Maths Problem today.

Look what question we could answer in groups. 

Some children could count in ones to 10 others could skip count in 2s to 10. 

2,4,6,8,10. 

Some children knew 5 + 5 = 10

Together we agreed it takes five people to make 10 feet. 

KaPai room 24

Rua Tekau

According to us the cheapest cookie to bake is the Chocolate Chip Recipe: 

We have halved this recipe: 

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Rua Tekau

According to us the cheapest cookie to bake is the Chocolate Chip Recipe: 

We have halved this recipe: 

Our shopping list: