Maths - Term 3

Connor is able to count forwards to 20

Connor is learning to count backwards from 20  

Connor, I am really impressed with how hard you are practising counting to and from 20.

Writing - Term 3

Connor is working hard to independently write a sentence by finding words on his word card and stretching out unknown words and recording the sounds he can hear.

Connor, I enjoyed hearing you read the story that you wrote about helping out by vacuuming.

Maths - Time

We have been learning to:

• sequence events within a day

• order the days of the week
• order the months in a year
• describe a duration as long or short ­
• ­name and ­directly compare the duration of two events
• ­­tell the time to the hour and half hour using analogue clocks

Before we talked about clock features, we all drew clocks using our prior knowledge.

Connor, your next learning step is to correctly position the numbers 1 to 12 on a clock face.

Play Based Learning

Connor, it's great to see you using your imagination and being creative during Discovery Time.

Science

Connor, you participated well in all the learning about the sun and how it affects everything, including animals and also causes night and day. It will be exciting to see the lanterns with the little lights in them at the Matariki lantern parade!

Art

Connor, you did a great job at selecting recycled materials and independently constructing your alien/robot named Cuteness!

Maths - strategy

With teacher support, I am able to solve addition and subtraction problems that have 5 as one of the numbers and the result unknown, by using the “5 and“ hand patterns that I have learnt. 

My next learning step is independently solve these equations.