On Monday we had the swim sports day at Sacred Heart. All of the children gave their all and we witnessed some rather close competition.. the video referee was required on a number of occasions! Despite the sweltering conditions, it was an awesome event thanks to Keith's amazing powers of organisation and you, the parents because of your willingness to give up your time to both assist and support on the day. Many thanks for that :-)
Writing: we did not make as much progress with Report writing as I'd hoped as I missed a couple of days. However, we shall be hitting this writing genre hard this week. (BTW. The HW results are demonstrating some phenomenal narrative writing skills..)
Maths: we ended our work on decimals and started our work on fractions. Now this is a great one to practise at home on pizza night or big bar of chocolate night! eg. how much pizza would you get if we were to share it evenly among 3 people? What if we had 2 pizzas and there were 5 people? How much would each person get? The key to this work is getting across the concept of equal sharing. So for the 2nd example, take 1 pizza and divide it equally by 5 people (1/5 each) and then do the same with the other.. means they get 2/5 each. Now, we shall be covering this in depth this week, but you may like to quiz your children on it. I shall also be doing 10 minutes of maintenance per group per day on decimals so that our first few weeks' work doesn't disappear into the ether! Get your child to demonstrate the Battleship game off the blog.. it's quite handy for grasping the relative size of fractions.
Reading: finally got the top readers organised for their novel studies. The others finished their research work which will tie into report writing and inquiry. I shall also be incorporating RFP into the rotation (Reading For Pleasure) from this week as I don't want the children to have the joy of reading battered out of them with too much comprehension-related work.
Te Reo is chugging along nicely. We only do one session a week, but I think the children (and me) are starting to remember some of the phrases.
Watewise: sadly cancelled due to it being too windy. Instead, we spent Friday doing some shield art. The idea was for the children to put 4 things on their shields that represented who they are.. again, this tied in well with our connections (whanaungatanga) work in Topic.
Peryn brought in his slack-line on Friday (I'd never heard of one till then!), so the children had a fun half hour trying to balance and bounce on it. Thanks to Peryn for setting it up and to Peryn's Dad for the idea!
Reminder: Camp is next week (week 7) from Monday to Wednesday. Please pay if you have not done so already. The camp has to know exact numbers in order to know how many instructors to organise.
Wow - the slack-line looks like such fun! I would have loved to see you push yourselves and your balance on that! All great practice for the many fun and exciting challenges coming up next week at camp. I am really looking forward to sharing the adventure with all of year 6!
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