Week 1
Week 1
Settling in and knowing expectations and school rules
Revisiting our classroom tiriti - is there anything to add? What are you going to focus on this term personally?
Knowing the school rules
Remembering what we do at WES with behaviour
Being respectful to others
Listening for what the teacher expects us to do
Learning about our MANA values
When everyone knows what is expected of them we will have less issues in the classroom and playground
No incidents
Happy classmates and school
This term we are on duty in the sports shed! We need to create groups. You need FIVE groups, one for each day of the week. You need to choose people in your group you can rely on, that you know will show up and not leave you to go and play.
What are the duties we need to do? We will start Tuesday after a tidy up in the shed.
Is our problem a big one? Or a small one? Do we need a teacher to help or are we old enough to sort out yourselves?
Are we trying to get someone else growled at, or are we trying to stop something that might get someone hurt? It's important to know, now you are old enough, what to do in what situation.
We are going to work on some problems and figure out what size they are after we go through the display on the mana display.
What does this mean? Do you know about income/expenses/bills/budgeting/rounding/making change/adding up expenses/decimal points/percentages???? We are going to be learning all about this during the term.
First of all, we will be setting up BANQER. Yes, that's how they spell it! Get your log in and glue it to the inside cover of your Mana books.
Identify the key points in non-fiction articles
Summarise the key points in our own words in the correct order
Locate and summarise ideas by skimming or scanning, by identifying key words, topic sentences and key questions, or by using subheadings
Identify parts of a newspaper article (like headline, byline)
Pick the correct day to choose what TYPE of article you should read.
Write up your key points and summarise on the Kiwi Kids News Sheets
Who is your audience? Remember, they have not read this article and need to know all the key points about what happened.
1. Read through someone else's Kiwi Kids News (NOT the same article), and the article they read.
2. Do you agree with them? Talk to them about it.
3. Glue it in your reading book.
4. Take a photo of it for your blog and blog about it at least ONCE per week.
Monday - WHOLE CLASS
Tuesday - WHOLE CLASS
Wednesday - International
Thursday - National
Friday - Your Choice