The week that was...

Well another week that was pretty similar to the previous week! So not much to report really.. 

In Maths, we were supposed to move onto looking at capacity but when I found too many still hadn't grasped area and volume, So I decided to do a couple of more sessions in these areas. At home, maybe you could go over the basics with real life examples: eg. if you were to buy carpet for a room, how would the calculate the area needed to be carpeted? How do we measure the volume of a box?Perhaps you could ask your children a smattering of these questions over breakfast: What's the difference between a 2D and a 3D shape? Why do we need to include depth when measuring volume? Why is area measured in square centimetres/metres etc and volume in cubic centimetres/metres etc?

Get the discussions going at home and you will quickly find the areas of weakness and can then help your children by using examples at home...

In Reading, we looked at stories that had something to do with Matariki for 'tis the Mataraki season again. The majority of the children knew about the Maori myth and how the stars were formed, but very few knew the actual reason for the celebrations. Perhaps, you could ask them and see how much they remember from last week... we also continued working on projecting voices and hamming it up through reading and performing plays..

Sophie Reading the class a story..

Our Buddy class, performing a play about Matariki..

In Writing, we continued work on using a well structured plan to create a well structured narrative and also continued to focus on proofreading and editing.

IMPORTANT

On Wednesday, in the Life Ed. Van, the focus was on bullying and cyber-bullying. Without going into any detail, it is clear that the children do not understand the true ramifications of posting pictures and making negative comments on apps such as instagram and the seriousness of this kind of activity in terms of bullying. Also, they have little understanding of the fact that just because they may have deleted a picture or comment, that that information is likely to still be stored somewhere. This really is a 21st century issue and at school and at home we need to continually educate and warn about the dangers of cyberspace.

And finally..

On a lighter note, the Talent Quest auditions came to a close.. the finals are in a couple of weeks, so check if your child made it and if so, do try and get in to watch them perform.

Reminders

We have a Sports Exchange this Tuesday