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 **Term 4 Focus & Inquiry Topic **  When I Grow Up: The local environment, Fossil Fuel, Kids Toys, Our Classroom

Writing: Book Report, Recount, Speech writing

Basic Number Facts, Statistics and Graphs, Place Value, Rounding

Reading for Comprehension Physical Fitness Skills, Large & Small Ball Handling, Soccer, Touch Rugby, Cricket

Goal Setting Goals must be realistic, achievable and measurable, and provide a stretch in learning and attitude to each individual.

18 October 2010:: A big well done for achieving our Term 3 goals. Term 4 goals have been negotiated. 19 November 2010:: Most students are well on the way to successfully completing their Term 4 goals. Most students has set goals around moving their reading from fiction to non-fiction and from simple stories to chapter books with few if any pictures. This goal has been well and truly achieved by all. Reading ability across the class has improved immensely.

Students are learning about T Charts [|T-Chart-1.pdf],

PMI charts and KWL charts [|kwl-1.pdf].

They are using these graphic organizers to select their best design.

What do you know about nouns? Listen and find out

[|See more Audio at TeacherTube.com.] [|See more Audio at TeacherTube.com.] What do you know about verbs? Listen and find out

[|See more Audio at TeacherTube.com.] [|See more Audio at TeacherTube.com.] One way to learn multiplication.

Learning Expectation It is expected that your child is Reading during the week at home. If your child needs a book they can get this from me during the week.

It is also expected that your child is learning their timetables. The sequence for this is 2x, 5x and 10x. They then need to learn their 4,3,6,7,8,and 9 times tables. See Maths games ideas for interesting ways to introduce the time stables to your child. www.tutpup.com is a popular way of introducing repetition to learn basic maths facts and times tables.

Your child **//should//** know where they are in their learning. They know their reading age, spelling age, areas where they need to learn in Maths, and what they need to work with in their written language.The main thing to to remember is not where they are at **but how far they have come.**

If you have any issues or concerns please see me straight away. Events this Week

Monday: ICT Suite 9.15am to 10.30am Tuesday: Wednesday: Religious instruction 12pm to 12.30pm Thursday: Maori with kaiako Bruce 11.45am to 12.30pm every 2nd week Friday : Library

Events coming up : Middles fun dayLast day of school - 15th of December 2010.

School Assembly: No whole school assemblies until the hall is vacated by the junior school. **Inquiry**: Research Model Our school model is called STRIVE.

__Spark__:Teachers wear funny costumes to ignite student interest. __Task__ : develop interesting relevant questions. __Research__: Use a range of places to find the information. Information: Put these ideas in our own words. __Voice:__ Explain what we found Reporting __Evaluation__: Reflect on what we found out and identify what we would do next time. Responsibility

** __Goals__ ** Goals will be set each term and will be targeted around areas identified by students, parents and myself. These goals need to be Relevant to the students needs, reflect a level of Responsibility for one's own learning, demonstrate the ability to carry out a Reflection of one's learning and include the concept of Reporting to others the learning that has occurred and the next step learning.

__** Success Criteria **__ What are they? As a class we identify what makes a good piece of work. __Responsibility__. We then level our work depending on the skills used __Reflection__ .From these skills the kids can see what they need to work on. In doing so they become more __responsible__ for their learning and have a better understanding of what they do. This term we have completed success criteria for graphing, handwriting,recount writing and swimming.

**__Learning Intentions__** These are key skills we are focusing on. The kids are told what they are doing and why we are doing things.Learning becomes more Relevant and kids can reflect on progress made.

The learning Intentions below are __some__ of the areas the class are working towards.

**Learning Intentions** We are learning about completing tasks. We are learning to manage our own learning. We are learning how to do number doubling. We are learning how to multiply decimal numbers. We are learning how to turn our division problems into multiplication problems. We are learning about interesting adjectives and strong verbs. We are learning how to note take and then make these into sentences. We are learning about comic strips and how they work. We will make our own animation or claymation. We are learning to read and understand what we are reading. We are learning to use a dictionary and a thesaurus.

My email address: charles@levinnorth.school.nz