Learning place value

A group had been using materials to see how they could use Place value to solve subtraction problems. Since they were filmed, the group has moved on to adding and subtracting in the hundreds.

Pepeha practise

During Te Reo today we were all practising our personalised pepeha.

Here is the template to use and adapt to suit...

Tena Koutou

Ko Pukematakea toku maunga

Ko Waitemata toku moana

Ko Western Heights toku kura

Ko _______________ toku maamaa

Ko _______________ toku paapaa

No reira

Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa

Reciprocal reading with green group

After a term of training to use reciprocal reading green group are nailing it. Each time, different people are in charge of different roles, the students discuss the text and investigate the deeper meaning behind the text.

Here are a few short video's that demonstrate some of the roles. Sadly the sound quality is not great but the learning is fantastic!

Welcome back to Term 4

It's great to see you all back, looking happy and relaxed. I'm so pleased to be back with you all.

This term is going to be a crazy term with so much happening, sometimes it'll be challenging to try to keep up!

We've started athletics today and the weather looks like we will be able to get out and do it more often, so make sure that Tuesdays are a shorts and t-shirt day. It's great to be able to get outside and get some fresh air.

We're busy revising all our knowledge and strategies for Maths and need to make sure that we have our basic facts nailed this term.

Writing is exciting as we're starting a new programme which gives each of us more choice and ownership as to what we write about. This will also link in really well with the Daily 5 reading which is running more smoothly with a few of the groups getting to grips with reciprocal reading.

With the sunnier evenings, it's harder to get to bed and sleep but we're all going to need to rest up. Let's finish this term with a bang :)