News from SLC

This year SLC has been playing a game called “Loopy” as a way to improve our knowledge and fluency of multiplication. In this game every student is given at least one card that has an answer and a multiplication sum. 

The game starts as soon as a student says the first sum and finishes when all the cards in the room have been used and the person who started says their answer and yells STOP! 

This is timed and as a class, we try to get faster and faster. This year SLC started at approximately 4 minutes and 30 seconds but we have managed to speed this up to 1 minute and 15 seconds throughout the first two terms. To make this harder for some students they will hold more than one multiplication card and have to juggle listening and looking at their answers. SLC is aiming to break a minute by the end of the year. 

This Term SLC has been introduced to our SNOT strategy for when we are stuck in class. Perhaps it wasn’t the best acronym to choose… “Make sure to use your SNOT!” May have been said, leading to a classroom that erupted with laughter. 

The SNOT strategy stands for Self, Notes, Other, Teacher. 

Self - This means the student should check their own knowledge and have a go first.

Notes - The student should check their notes or previous work in their books to try and help themselves as well as using the classroom resources like any posters up on the focus walls. 

Other - Ask a friend or someone next to you for help and ask them to not just give you the answer, ask them to explain what strategy helped them the most. 

Learning Support Officer/Teacher - If all else fails then ask the teacher because they are more than happy to help you. 

Last term SLC got right into dancing before the school day started and that was to get us moving and active before the day started. It also gives students the opportunity to get any silliness out so we can focus on learning.

This term the SLC students play an indigenous game each day instead of dancing to broaden our knowledge of indigenous culture and to learn new games that use the resources from the world around us. These games are from a range of different regions all over Australia and it is interesting to see how games differ through these regions. 

For our game of Minwala we also had a little visitor join in the fun.

Kind Regards

Mr Jack Cirillo

SLC Classroom Teacher