Joey’s Matters

Focus on Learning 

Stage 1 Learning: 

MATHEMATICS: 

The last few weeks we have been working on addition.  The students have been playing many games, watching teaching videos and completing guided groups around quick number facts, the jump strategy and we will be introducing the split strategy in the coming days.

 

  

Please see below for some photos explaining the jump and split strategy so that you can engage in a conversation with your child about these.  Keep an eye on the "Mathematics" section of the Newsletter, as helpful videos are often uploaded here! 

 

 

 

Some activities that could be practised at home to help with these skills are counting forwards and backwards by tens or hundreds from any number.  For example, start at 5 and count by tens: 15, 25, 35.   Start at 263 and count forwards by tens: 273, 283, 293. 

 

LITERACY: 

Last week, in preparation for Mother's Day, we were very excited to write a persuasive letter about why our mum/grandma/aunt should win an award.   Here are some photos of the students completing their Big Write tasks. 

We have a new member of our class - Winny the Word Monster!   Winny loves to eat WOW words.  Each day, we strive to put new interesting and exciting vocabulary onto our VCOP wall.  When the wall becomes full, we 'feed' any older words from the wall to Winny. 

These words can then be revisited during different activities throughout the term.  The kids have loved Winny being the class and are always keen to add new vocab to the wall so that Winny can be fed. 

 

The Coolamon Challenge for Week 3:

 Congratulations toRicky Hird, Ryder Hird and Brooklyn Stubbs our winners for last week. The answers are below.   

Infants

  1. What gets wet while drying? = A towel
  2. What kind of room has no doors or windows? = A mushroom
  3. What has four fingers and a thumb but isn’t alive? = A glove

Primary

  1. What is yours but mostly used by others? =Your name
  2. A cowgirl road into town on Friday. Three days later, she left on Friday. How is that possible? = Friday is the name of her horse
  3. What animal can jump higher than a building? = Any animal that can jump as a building can't jump
  4. What month of the year has 28 days? = All months have 28 days
  5. How many letters are there in 'the alphabet'? = 11

Coolamon Challenge for Week 4          Good Luck and have fun!

 

Infants

  1. What’s really easy to get into, and hard to get out of?
  2. What room do ghosts avoid?
  3. What has a head and a tail but no body?

Primary

  1. Which question can you never answer "yes" to?
  2. What's something that, the more you take, the more you leave behind?
  3. If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but smile at me and I’ll smile back. What am I?
  4. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
  5. If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?