Pleasing to see there are so many keen writers in the class. Unfortunately, a few did not bother to carefully check their work for mistakes. Parents, it would be great if you could cast your eyes over their written HW before they hand it in and point out and discuss any glaring mistakes.. the mixing up of 'their' and 'there' seems to be a classic! If we have a 2-pronged attack - me at school and you at home, we should eradicate any spelling/grammar complacency by the end of the year! Thanks.
Maths: I note a bit of confusion on the new strategy. Basically, we looked at using Reversibility for decimal subtraction when Place Value Partitioning does not easily work:
eg. 10.7 - 9.94 = 0.76
9.94 + ? = 10.7
9.94 + 0.06 = 10
10 + 0.7 = 10.7
0.06 + 0.7 = 0.76
NB. Keith was in Room 26 on Thursday as I had a release day and he commented that a lot of the children still don't seem to actually know what a decimal is! I will of course be going over this, but it would be excellent if you could reinforce this by pointing out decimals in action when and where you come across them.
Writing: we finished the comics and started work on writing Reports.. early days on that one..
Reading: we continued with our work on comprehension and also started looking at note taking when researching on the web. Hopefully, will get some of the top readers into novel studies this week.
Te Reo : we continued to look at greetings. Your children should now be able to use Maori to say (at the very least) Hello, my name is...
.. and finally... Holly Tudor came in for a visit on Friday. She even had time to read the children a story; they loved it.. as did I!
REMINDER: Please return the Parent Survey forms asap. Many thanks.
BTW. We are doing PAT testing every day this week from 9am. We should be finished by 9.45-10 am. It would be excellent if your children could all be at school between 9 and 10.. ie. please push dental appointments etc out to after 10 am (if poss :-)). Many thanks.
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