Welcome to Week 8! Week 8!! Can you believe it's already Week 8!!!
We have been super busy in Kōwhai with our amazing Literacy and Maths and last week we launched our little garden league project where we are going to be growing the seeds from the Little Garden promotion from New World. We were lucky enough to be sent a whole bunch of free seedlings and we have planted them today. Literacy We are really impressed with how hard everyone is working on their Literacy and thank you for all of your hard work at home. Just a reminder that Monday - Thursday nights every week there will be follow up activities to complete. These could be sound practice, letter formation, speed reading words, dictated sentences, heart words to learn or pieces of text to read. We really notice the difference in the children that complete the follow up activities and the ones that don't. When children reinforce their learning at home they are strengthening their neural pathways and therefore strengthening their memory and making their learning easier. We are really proud of our Literacy programme and you may have seen it mentioned in the news recently. It is great to know that we are teaching literacy based on the Science of Reading and helping lead a change in the way that Literacy is taught in New Zealand schools. Maths We have been working really hard on our maths in class. The things we have been working on are addition and subtraction through real life problems and learning about the days of the week, months of the year and seasons. We often get asked how parents can help at home. There are heaps of things that you can do to reinforce our maths learning. The most important thing is to never say that you are not good at maths. We are working really hard on creating positive maths mindsets with a strong sense of self-belief. If they hear you say you are not good at maths they might start to take this on as well. (Even if you didn't like maths at school - pretend you loved it and were amazing at it!!) Also lots of number recognition to 20, then to 50, then to 100. This could be on letterboxes, recipes, board games, in the car, or any where around home. Playing dice games with children is a great way to help them recognise patterns and teaching them how to add and count on. We talk a lot in class about how maths is everywhere in our world (not just on a worksheet or in our maths books!) if could be as simple as pointing out anytime you use maths in your everyday life or even if you use it through your work! (This then shows the children that maths is everywhere and just doesn't happen between morning tea and lunch!!) Sense of belonging We are so lucky to have such a wide range of families in our community and we would like to celebrate where we all come from. We have a New Zealand map, a world map and an iwi map that we would like to put up in Kōwhai that celebrates all of the cool places we feel connected to. Over the next week we will send out a form for you to fill in that highlights all of the places in the world (including New Zealand) that you have a family connection to so that we can add it to our display. Resources for the Mud Kitchen If you have any old metal pots and pans or baking dishes that you are looking to get rid of we would love them for our mud kitchen. Thanks so much! Cardboard boxes If you have any spare cardboard boxes from your pantry that would normally go into the recycling we would love to please have them for our construction box! Pet Day Pet day is returning this year which is super exciting! There will be information coming our from the school around this so please keep an eye our for this!! That is all for now! Have an amazing weekend!! Thelma, Nicole, Sonja, Janette and Jo Kōwhai Teachers [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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