Literacy and Numeracy
Engagement in Mathematics
In mathematics this term the staff and students are having a focus on engagement in mathematics. The word engagement takes on many different meanings. The experts define engagement in mathematics as the following:
- Mathematics is a subject students enjoy learning
- Mathematics is at students level - challenging but not too challenging
- Students value their mathematics learning and see its relevance in their own lives now and in the future
- Students see connections between the mathematics they learn at school and the mathematics they use outside school. (Attard 2012)
In the newsletters this term, students across different Year levels will be sharing their thoughts about when they feel engaged in their mathematics learning. Here is a snapshot of the thoughts of our Year 6 students.
| Shanelle | I find maths engaging when I find a question with a new solving strategy which helps me with other problems. |
| Lucie | I find maths engaging when we get to work in a pair and do fun projects like the zoo and now the dream trip! |
| Laura | I am most engaged in my mathematical learning when the teachers give me hard word questions that include many steps to solve. |
| Nikolai | I am most engaged in maths when I am learning something new. The thing that helps me most in maths is being able to communicate with friends. I find maths engaging because I like doing maths tasks. |
| Daniel | I find maths engaging when I get challenged and when I don’t know something about it. |
Mathematics Challenge
Thank you to the many families who emailed their responses to the triangles mathematics challenge. The correct answer was 18. An extra special mention to the following families who were the first three families to respond. Come and see me on Tuesday for a small prize.
Rose B & family (3H)
Grace & family (5P)
Darcy M & family (2S)
Cathy Dimitrakopoulos Josh Crowe
Learning and Teaching/Literacy Leader Mathematics Leader
joshua.crowe@sjvermont.catholic.edu.au
BOOK WEEK @SJV ...
Our Library Monitors have met and have a fabulous week organised to celebrate a love of reading and quality literature during Book Week. This year's theme is 'Dreaming with eyes open ...'
Please continue reading to find out what our Year 6 team has organised:
Hello Everyone!
Book week will be held in week 7, we will be holding a few different activities during this week. Some of these activities include :
Monday 22nd August at 9am we will hold the Book Week Parade:
Come dressed as your favourite character using only what you have in your house. This has not happened for a few years so we are very excited!
Monday 22nd - Thursday 25th August:
At lunchtime, the library monitors will run an optional treasure hunt around our school based around picture story books. They will ask interested students to meet them in the library for instructions.
Tuesday 23rd, Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th,
The library monitors will visit the Prep - Year 5 classrooms in pairs at Freggie time to read shortlisted picture story books to class.
Wednesday 24th August - 2.25pm
Year 6 buddies will go to the Prep classrooms to read their favourite picture storybook to the Preps.
Friday 26th August - afternoon
All classes will be invited to have a movie afternoon. This will be a book that has been made into a movie that will be G rated.
We hope that you are excited for book week!
From the Library Monitors.
Premiers' Reading Challenge
Keep up your great work and effort with this! Remember to have all books recorded by Friday 26th August.
Cathy Dimitrakopoulos Josh Crowe
Learning and Teaching/Literacy Leader Mathematics Leader