Week 9

Gosh, almost the holidays again!! My how time flys.

We had a great treasure hunt on Friday, the clues were pretty tricky, however they managed to figure them all out and find the treasure in the end.  A big thanks to Oli and Elizabeth who teamed up to get the treasure out of the tree.

As the clues were all over the school, there was a lot of crazy running around, and they looked awesome in their dress-ups.  It's just the way a Friday should be.

A reminder that this Friday we are going to the fire-station in the middle block and we still need a little more help with transport, if you are able to help from 11.00am and 12.30pm, please let me know.

Also, remember that the Junior School Cross Country will be on the 23rd of October at 1.30, just in case you need to arrange some time off work to come and watch:)

The New Zealand Ballet visited on Thursday and two of their dancers came to talk to the children, we even got to practice a few moves...adorable.

The focus this week in the class will continue to be our writing and maths,  
We are learning how to solve maths problems using counting all or counting on strategies with numbers within 10. For example 4 and 5.
The most important thing is for the children to understand that when they are presented with a problem, they need to do something or get something to help them figure it out.
They can get something and make a set of 5 and a set of 4 and then join them together to find the answer, or they can put the bigger number (5) in their head and count on 6,7,8,9 to find the answer.

Thankfully, most of us have stopped guessing what the answer might be, if you get a chance to practice joining two sets to find the answer at home, that would be great.

 I am so impressed with the great reading going on at home and at school, well done to you all. We will continue learning how to take risks when we write and how to find words we need around the room for our writing.  
A great exercise to do at home is to help your child write one sentence about the book they were reading, something simple like "Who was your favorite character?" or "What colour was the cat?"  They can draw the picture and then "help" you with the spelling of the words. Nice and short, four or five words is ample.

I will be away at a course on Wednesday, so there will be a reliever in the class,   Have a great week eveyone.