The Learning Zone

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." - Chinese Proverb

"Coming together is the beginning, staying together is progress,

and working together is success." - Henry Ford

Welcome back to another year of learning at St Joseph's. As we work together to support your child's learning, a great question that parents and carers can ask their child after school is what did you learn today? This is powerful, as it allows your child to focus on the learning that took place during the day and explain their understanding to you.

A focus on their learning supports our 'Living Well, Learning Well Framework' and will assist them in seeing that they are growing in their learning. Learning is forever, if you are willing to learn and determined to learn, no one can stop you, so at St Joseph’s let's put MAXIMUM EFFORT into our learning.

Armidale Diocesan Mathematics Initiative (MaST)

Maths At Home:

Kindergarten - 2D Space

Kindergarten will begin with a unit of work on 2D Shapes. It is important that students experience shapes that are represented in a variety of ways, eg 'tall skinny' triangles, 'short fat' triangles, right-angled triangles presented in different orientations and of different sizes, and shapes that are represented using a variety of materials, eg paint, images on the computer or use string. Students should be given time to explore materials in order to represent shapes by tearing, painting, drawing, writing, or cutting and pasting.

Please use the links below:

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Shapes For Kids: The Complete Parents’ Guide To Teaching Shapes

Stage 1 - 2D Shapes

Stage 1 will be learning to recognise, describe and represent shapes including quadrilaterals and other common polygons before moving onto Representing Whole Numbers.

Counting stairs or objects in two, threes, fives and tens is a great way to assist your child.

Talk about numbers whenever opportunities arise. Ask questions such as “Which is bigger/smaller/the same/different?” Try the problems below to start the year.