Wednesday 11 January 2012

Linking "Talk for writing" and investigations

Yesterday we read our next "Talk for writing" story written by Pie Corbett called Mulenga and the cherries

Here it is ..

It got us thinking.... Mulenga was very clever when he waited for the grocer to grab a handful of cherries. Can you think of reasons why he did this?
We all compared the size of our hands and realised they were all similar in size, apart from Mr Walls, his hand was huge.

This afternoon Mr Walls asked the class a question,

Can boys pick up more items than girls? If so, why?

So, the class designed an investigation to find out the answer to the question. Tomorrow they will record their findings using Textease spreadsheet.













What did you find out?
Write back and let me know.

17 comments:

  1. Hello Year 4,

    If I were going to a shop that charged by the handful rather than weight, I think I would take along a friend with the largest hand to help. :)

    Did you know before we had standard measures, measurements were very different?

    I found this when looking through Wikipedia ...

    "In "The Magna Carta" of 1215 (The Great Charter) with the seal of King John, put before him by the Barons of England, King John agreed in Clause 35 "There shall be one measure of wine throughout our whole realm, and one measure of ale and one measure of corn--namely, the London quart;--and one width of dyed and russet and hauberk cloths--namely, two ells below the selvage…."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_of_measurement#History

    Before the birth of Christ, the Egyptians, Mesopotamians and people of the Indus Valley had developed standard measures.

    Look at this example where there isn't a standard measure...

    Two shops each sell material. One shop had more customers and sells more material yet only makes the same amount of money as they other even though the charge the same price for a length. The length is the problem. Each holds the end of the material in one hand, stretches out their arm and measures a length as the distance from their hand to their nose.

    Why do you think one sells more yet makes no more money?

    I always loved maths and logic puzzles and, in the example, it seems some customers of the shops worked out which was best value. :)

    @RossMannell
    Teacher, NSW, Australia

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  2. Hello I am Elsie I am from Vauvert
    Primary School, I like your pictures.

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  3. Hi I am from Vauvert primary
    school I like your blog.

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  4. Hi I am from Vauvert primary
    school I like your blog.

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  5. hi my name is kalisha from Vauvert Primary, I was just looking threw your picturs and they are fantastic.




    Kalisha

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  6. hi i am from vauvert primary school.I like your photes on your blog.

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  7. Good luck with that.

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  8. hi my name is Hannah and iam from Vauvert school

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  9. Hello,
    my name is Lilly and I come from Vauvert. I like your 'text for writing'.

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  10. Hello my name is Elliott I am from Guernsey Vauvert primary school.Good work.

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  11. i enjoyed doing that yesterday it was fun

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  12. wow a famous person write to miss warner you are so cool wow your pics are just amazing all of you are sorted

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  13. It looks like you were all working hard on this investigation

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  14. i cant beliv the boys wun the girls i cant beliv it

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  15. I realy enjoyed that
    Alex

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  16. i had lots of fun picking the discs beacause you go a hire score.

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  17. my best part was doing the discs because you get a hire score.

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