Writing Star

On Monday Jethro took his writing to Mrs Dawson to share.  He was able to hear a lot of the sounds he needed while he was working with Mrs Nathan.  He is learning to listen and write the sounds he hears while he is working by himself too.  Great work Jethro!

Who's at school?

Each day we use our clever maths brains to work out how many people are at school.

We find out how many boys and how many girls there are.

First we count the boys.  Manatu told me there were seven, because he knew that 5 on one side and 2 on the other made 7.  Then we noticed that there were 4 girls. Hazel knew this because she saw one empty space.

Timoteo reminded us that we needed to move the girls onto the boys bus to fill it up and make 10.  This makes it easy for our brains to do.

Then we had 10 people on one bus and only 1 on the other.  Jethro knew that this was 11 children at school.

Kahlany and Tauroa came late so we had to find out how many we had then.  11+2 was a bit tricky so we looked at the buses and saw 10 on one and 3 on the other and Jethro knew that it was 13.

Math's Activities

Today after we had finished our number 7 worksheet we used the maths activities.

Dezyire and Lolesio were pracising the numbers that come between,

Tauroa, Manatu, Jethro and Halatoa were practising counting and writing numbers 

Timoteo and Jrinay were using the counting puzzles to practice putting numbers in order.