Last
week, we saw our virtue of creativity being show cased.
Art
day was fantastic, not only do our artworks rock the foyer, but I was so
impressed with the TEAMWORK shown throughout the day. I was impressed by the way your small people
encouraged each other, gave praise, showed the way and congratulated on a job
well done.
I
was impressed by the choices some small people made. Art may not be their favourite or most
skilled topic, but gave 110% and never gave up.
Truly showing EXCELLENCE, even when their learning is a challenge. Tino Pai!
I
hope you all enjoyed the poems that our creative writers compiled on
Friday, Poetry is a great way for the
children to hear rhyme, which helps them make connections between words they
already know and new ones.
We
worked together to make a FAB4 for our writing books. We had lots of discussions, matched ideas
together and eliminated some. We are
making the final draft early this week, so ask your FAB4 learner what they need
to remember when writing.
I
will put a final copy of this on the blog, it would be amazing if you could
write a comment, that congratulates
and/or states that your small person knows the FAB4.
Apologies
for not having the Basic Facts race sorted, we are working on this, this
week. You will also find, in the numbers
notebook, the small persons login for Mathletics. I am setting a basic facts focus to start, to
encourage self management of their learning.
This
week, we are setting up our reading program.
We will be using aspects of DAILY FIVE system:
· Reading
to Myself
· Reading
to a buddy
· Listening
to Reading
· Practice
Writing
· Working
with words
It
is a great system, but as you can imagine, does take a little ‘training’ to run
effectively. Students need to be able to
work with stamina – ask your small person what that means when learning.
Reading
boxes are shared with their buddies.
Sometimes the wrong book can be grabbed, so if a book comes home either
too easy or too hard, perhaps you could share it together or read something
from home. Thanks for understanding.
We
are looking at working in small groups and solving problems together in
maths. I am looking forward to seeing
tomorrow’s leaders in action.
Have
a great week, we surely will J
Tarnz
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