Dear Parents
The class has continued to impress me with their positive work habits and ability to be creative in their thinking. The students have been looking at the reading comprehension strategy of visualisation. Using this strategy helps readers to engage with text in ways that make it personal and memorable and make reading three-dimensional for them. In statistics the students completed their first statistical investigation working right through the correct process and also focused in on pie graphs. For the maths mate we spend 10 minutes on a Monday working on the maths mate before they go home, this is an opportunity for the students to ask questions about the maths concepts that do not understand before working on them at home. The last three questions (problem solving) are designed to push the student’s thinking. They can either ask you or me for help with these questions if they have persisted at trying to solve them using a variety of different strategies available to them. The maths mate is then due in on Thursday where we mark it in groups and the students’ scores are recorded.
This week we will be continuing with our units on writing and recounts, grammar and punctuation, ICT advanced processing, the visual arts, and topic. We will have most of our testing this week as well and this will continue next week. I will endeavour to contact you all this week by phone, or in person if I see you at school, for a brief update on how your child is settling into Room 11, also to confirm camp days with parents who indicated they would like to come on camp.
Reminders & information: - We have our Senior/Intermediate Swim Sports this Monday, the students have had the opportunity to select the events they are participating in and have been allocated a race or heat number and lane number so they should know what they are doing. I hope you can come and support the children in their endeavours and if you are transporting could you please come to the class for 8.55am to sign the transport form – thank you. From this swim sports we will select the swim team that will represent the school at the Motueka swim sports the following Tuesday. Also camp is only 2 weeks away – yay! So the students will be coming back with another camp letter, a personal gear list (Wednesday). A reminder that I need all the permission slips in by the end of the week and that camp fees need to be paid before we go on camp (if there are any difficulties please come and talk with me).
I hope you have an enjoyable week.
Yours sincerely
Mandy Stephens
Dear Students
This week I would like you to do the following:
· Complete maths homework (maths mate sheet - Term 1, Sheet 3 – due in Thursday)
· You did such a great job with your recount timeline-excitement graphs on a success students that I would like to do another one, but this time the focus will be on recounting an experience from a camp you have been part of (preferably last year’s camp if possible). Remember you need to:-
· Write a summary of events at bottom of page (broken into four sections)
· Add time sequence words (Firstly, That afternoon, Later)
· Plot your points of the graph and then join the points together. (Time series)
· Finally finish off with appropriate pictures/diagrams for the different stages of the event at top
Remember to proof read and publish using A1 standards. You all know how to use this framework, having been taught it in class and completing one yourself. DUE IN FRIDAY
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