Week 3 already and we all seem to be very busy with winter sports kicking into full gear. It’s really neat to see the range of sports the children are playing and following their team’s progress.
Maths is continuing along nicely and we begin to look deeper into the connection between decimals, percentages and fractions this week. We explore how we can convert between all three to help us solve problems and use this strategy to prove our answers in a number of different ways.
On Thursday we have our second session of the Otago Problem SOlving Challenge which pushes the children’s problem solving skills.
In reading we continue to read about our enviro focuses, Room 3 planting and Room 4 bees. In writing we begin to turn our notes into an information report to present the knowledge we have gained. Monday’s writing sessions are a free writing session which the children are really enjoying. They have a focus for their writing to practice a particular skill. Today for example was to vary the way we start our sentences. They are provided with a picture and a 1-2 sentence story starter and then they can let their imagination take control. We have been impressed at the creativity we are seeing!
We continue to work on our mihi’s and begin to start using the greenscreen to make it visual. Be sure to check out our blogs in the next week or two as we get them put together. We had another exciting Japanese lesson this afternoon with Mrs Karasawa so make sure you ask the children to share their new vocab with you.
Other than that business as usual. Enjoy your week and feel free to pop in and say hi.
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