Week 4  Term 4

The term is flying by quickly. Thank you for the effort you are putting in to hearing your child read.
I will do some more reading testing this week. Please keep pushing the word lists and the books!

Swimming this week please send your child's swimming gear all week.
If at the time of our swim the weather turns 'yuk' I will cancel that swim for that day.

Welcome Daya to our class. 
Daya is straight from India and is settling in well. The class have been very helpful at making him feel welcome. 

I have noticed a lot of 'tell tales' going round. We have talked about this as a class and what to do in different situations when another child is being 'annoying'.
Please can you talk to your child about this as well and the techniques for avoiding conflict!
Like walking away, choosing to work with someone who is helpful and not distracting, or working on their own to get their work finished.
At this age they are learning to take some responsibility for their choices. The class know the routine for where to put finished work and what to move onto when they have finished their activity. There are a few children who are taking too long to complete work and move on.
We will address this more this week.

For those parents who helped at the working bee on Saturday..a HUGE thank you!

In maths we are looking at all the ways to make 10 and represent 10. Look out for our 10 representations that will be hanging up really soon.

Last week I attended a professional development session on maths at Westbrook school. It was most informative. It is great to see what other professionals are doing and swap ideas and practice methods with other schools. The guest speaker has a masters in teaching mathematics  and has travelled far and wide doing research on the subject.
I got the opportunity to talk to her afterwards as well which was great.

Have a great week,

Bernie