We are very excited to introduce our orphan joey “Cherry” to our school community. Cherry was rescued by a park ranger in the Flinders Ranges. She is a red kangaroo and is approximately 5 months old. Cherry spends all her time in a pouch, and drinks special kangaroo formula 4 times a day. She needs to be kept warm, have lots of sleep and get lots of cuddles. We will care for her until she is big enough to be out of the pouch full time. Then she will go to live a happy life at Wildwood Park Sanctuary with lots of other kangaroos. We weigh her every Tuesday to make sure she is putting on weight. So far, she has put on 256 grams! We need to use our subtraction skills to calculate how much weight she has gained.

HELP: Very soon, Cherry will be eating chaff. Does anyone have a shopping bag of oaten or wheaten chaff they would swap for a box of chocolates?

In other maths news – we have been working hard learning all about decimal numbers. We had great fun ordering decimals using two different representations and then laying down our ordered representations to see if they matched. We felt very successful!