First of all a big Congratulations to Bronson for completing his first week at school, you have settled in so quickly to school life, it is lovely to have you in our class.
Thanks to all the parents, grandparent's and grandfriend's who turned up on Friday, it was wonderful to see all of you and for you to share in the children's learning.
Your children are welcome to join any of those school groups that were performing, it is a great opportunity to become involved in a team and meet new friends.
In class we are concentrating on our math skills, we will be working on recognising reading and writing numbers up to 100 and on memorising our facts of 5...5+0, 4+1, 3+2, 2+3, 1+4 and 5+0, the children need to turn these facts into knowledge, that is they need to know these facts without counting on their fingers. It is lots of repetition, lots of flash cards until it is known. We will also be working on subitising, this is a flash word that means... Instantly recognizing the number of objects in a small group, without counting. Example: when you know there are 5 coins here without counting.
Dice games are really good for this, if you need or want more ideas to help with maths at home check out the Introductory Video at nzmaths, here is the link...
If you have any newspapers, empty cereal boxes, ice-cream containers or toilet rolls lying around at home could you please drop them into class for us to use.
No swimming this week, sadly. We are back in the pool in Week 6.
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