Maths Week Day Five

Wow!  What a week.  Miss Hawke had some amazing activities organised for the school.
On Friday we had our Amazing Race around Alfredton.  We had so many activities we had to complete.
First it started with the Bee Hives - we had to carefully construct the bee hives using all of the geometry skills we had.
Next we went to the Toothpaste Challenge.  Each group had to estimate how long we could squeeze out a tube of toothpaste.  This was lots of fun and created a lot of competition!
After that we went and estimated how much force/weight was needed to tow a person on Miss Hawke's dads steam train.  This was probably the highlight of the day for most of us!  We loved going for rides on the steam train.
We then did the bean bag throw just before lunch.  We had so many minutes to get as many bean bags in the bucket as we could - the adults kept tally charts for us.

Lunch was delicious!  Mr Hull and Mr Papworth cooked up a storm on the BBQ and we even onions with our sausages - YUMMY!

After lunch we kicked off again.  We started with an orienteering course around Alfredton School.  We certainly learnt a lot about reading compasses based on this activity.
Then we had out geometry treasure hunt where we had to find real life examples of geometric shapes - lots of creativity amongst the teams in the race to be first here.
Finally we did the water challenge!  We had to fill buckets with water by carrying it in a cup.  We didn't have long to do this and had to really get going.  It was loads of fun and ended up in a big water fight!  Here are some photos of the challenge: