Week Eight - Easter and a Long Break!

Having had an eventful week last week, it was clear that the students were ready to get back to normality.  Apart from having Friday off this week, there were much fewer extracurricular interruptions.  The children worked hard this week to complete activities before the short week ended.  Many spoke of their anticipation of the long weekend, and some of the exciting events that they were to participate in!

Although Athletics Day was last week, the positive vibes could still be felt during fitness and P.E. this week.  As you can see from the photo below Room 7 love participating in outdoor activity!

Smiles all round the children completed extra laps around the field during fitness to start practicing for our upcoming cross-country at the end of Term 1.  

In writing this week we continued our focus on recounts, but moved into the idea of developing an orientation.  Alongside organising and sequence events, it is key that the students are able to introduce the topic they will be writing about appropriately.  The students used the events of Athletics Day as a prompt to begin practicing writing orientations which include - who, what, where, when, and why.  Some amazing work around this topic has been completed, and improvements from the beginning of this year are already evident.  The students are looking forwards to Literacy Week next week, and I am also looking forward to inviting parents into the class to introduce our literacy programs.  

In numeracy this week the students were focusing on developing their individual needs again.  To begin the lessons we have been working on 'hotspots' which are all about handling and dealing with numbers - this includes counting, skip-counting, and basic facts.  Further to the information provided in the last two weeks blog entries, if there are any questions regarding Mathletics or our maths program, please don't hesitate to contact myself or Sharon, our team leader.

Finally, congratulations to those Room 7 learners who handed their homework in before Thursday, and to Ngarimu for winning Monday Funday!

Nga mihi,

Nicholas Shimasaki