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RECIPROCAL MATHEMATICS

Reciprocal teaching is an interactive strategy and a collaborative learning method. This method can be implemented for both Reading and Mathematics. The steps involved give students a scaffold to drive their own learning.

Reciprocal Maths is a program being implemented across the year levels at CSPS.  This is a key improvement strategy for our AIP (Annual Improvement Plan)

What Reciprocal teaching can do for students:

  1. It helps students understand the meaning of phrases, symbols, and vocabulary.
  2. It provides structure for problem solving.
  3. It helps students identify important and unimportant information in a question.
  4. It teaches students critical thinking in predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing which is essential in all content areas.
  5. Encourages students to talk about the math and how they solved a problem.
  6. Helps students see multiple ways to solve a problem.

Reciprocal maths can

  • Lower math anxiety for students
  • Allow students to have more confidence in solving a problem.
  • Allow students to work together at higher levels.
  • Develop skills in students to solve more complex tasks

Here are some examples of worded problems to try:

Siku was travelling home on his dog-sled after hunting for food for his village. Siku had 60 hours to travel in total.  On the first day, his dogs pulled him for 5 hours before resting.  How many more hours will it take Siku and his huskies to reach home?

 

Siku has husky dogs in many different colors. He has 60 dogs in total. A third of them are cinnamon and white. A quarter of them are red and white. The rest of them are gray and white. How many of the huskies are gray and white?

Don't forget to log onto Mathletics each week to complete tasks.

ACE Foundation

On behalf of the Cranbourne South Primary School's Foundation Team, I wish to thank the ACE Foundation for the recent donation of picture story books for our students.  As beginning readers, our students delight in rich and vibrant illustrations and these books have been a great asset in supporting our developing readers.

Reading is such a fundamental skill to develop in our Foundation classrooms and we are extremely grateful for your donation to our school.

Again on behalf of our school and students, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Thanks and kind regards,

Jessica Doolan

Next week on Thursday 20th June the whole school will be participating in a BIG Write. The genre for this week is a Recount. 

All families are encouraged to participate in the 'Big Talk' home  learning and discuss the topic and gather any ideas. 

A recount retells an experience or an event that happened in the past. The purpose of a recount can be to inform, entertain or to reflect and evaluate.  A recount can focus on a specific section of an event or retell the entire story.  A recount should always be told in the order that things happened. A recount can come in many forms; personal recount, factual, imaginative, procedural and literary recount.  A recount answers the 5W's - Who, What, Where, When, Why and a timeline of events.

On Thursday the 6th of June the Isea Icare team went to Endeavour Hills to see a litter trap removed and cleaned. It was amazing to see what was inside the drain. The Rocla CDS (continuous deflection separation) unit catches all of the rubbish and debris that flows through the storm water drains that would normally make its way down to Port Phillip or Western Port Bay. There were so many plastic drink bottles and plastic bags inside the litter trap, there was even a frisbee and a totem tennis bat! In the second half of the day we got to do some water testing, tree planting and we also looked for freshwater macroinvertebrates and found some!

The big message that we came away with is that we need to REDUCE our use of plastic. So please help our environment and think about what you purchase, is there a more sustainable option?

Thank you

Eboni, Marli, Ruby, Zoe