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Week 9 home learning

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Here is some of our thinking around what repeated addition means

Levi shows how to use repeated addition for multiplication problems

Look at this amazing example of Repeated addition from Bilal & Lewis

Matariki Shared Lunch - Wednesday 22 June

TE WHANAU O POHUTUKAWA MATARIKI SHARED LUNCH – WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016

To celebrate the end of Matariki we are going to have a shared lunch for all the Pohutukawa learners.  Please bring a plate of food to share.  Parents are very welcome to join us 12.00-1.00pm in the Pohutukawa Whanau.  If it is sunny we will sit outside.

Ngā mihi o te tau hou

Alice, Nicole, Sally and Sarah

Flipped Learning for Reading groups - attention Purple, Gold and Journals group Strategy Focus - SUMMARISING

Hi guys - hope your weekend is going well.

This week we will be looking at the Comprehension strategy of Summarising in our reading groups.

Check out this You Tube clip to find out more ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzmIcsazvco

See you on Monday

Sarah

This weeks award winners!

Home Learning Week 8

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nG00D94S779RL5JeR4YPLverbARdKNA15_Tsh3Rlrmg/edit

Matariki Waiata: learn the names of the stars by learning the Matariki Waiate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLqEwg2jJbQ

Flipped Learning - Dodecahedrons

Dodecahedrons -

Watch this video carefully and be ready for your group session with any questions, or an example of how to use this strategy.

Have fun, see you on Wednesday :)

- Alice

Flipped Learning - Pyramids and Spheres

Good morning!

Pyramids and spheres (and anyone else that feels like taking a look), have a watch of this video which shows how to use repeated addition to work out multiplication problems. Nicole will be working with you on Monday-Tuesday to understand this.

See you on Wednesday!

- Alice

Maths Night!

Money money money

An independent learner helping a supported learner today. Tino pai boys.

How much money do we have from five coins - look at all our answers.

What a winner !

Congratulations to Pohutukawa's awesome writer Rosa. 

She entered a competition (with about 250 writers from schools around NZ) and guess what ..... Rosa won.

Have a read of her winning story below .... We are soooooo proud of you Rosa.

Friday afternoon exploration stations

Minipolo skills session

We are learning awesome skills for Minipolo today. Throwing with one hand and swimming up the pool with the ball. 

This weeks award winners in Pohutukawa!

Home learning

There will be no home learning this week. Enjoy the long weekend with your families and make sure you have a restful time.  Come back ready for the next five weeks of learning.

In reading we have been learning about inferring, or 'show not tell'.

We love read to self!

We love read to self!