Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Habitats
Friday, 15 March 2024
Writing - The Story Mountain!
Now that we have well and truely settled into the school year, we are beginning to introduce and revisit structures to support our writing.
Over the last couple of weeks we have been talking about the 'Story Mountain' - a structure that stories can follow:
As we know, stories will have multiple problems throughout, and sometimes we have two (or more) mountains within a piece - which the kids love to call camel stories!
This week we've completed story mountains about Jess getting stuck in a train station in Italy (which actually happened!), and stories a bit closer to home, about losing teeth and what could happen at a birthday party. Come into Tautoru to check them out!
Friday, 8 March 2024
Maths in Tautoru
"The first few years of primary school are when crucial maths learning happens. Years 1–3 are when students develop the foundational maths skills and understandings that they need for future success."
Over the last 5 weeks in Tautoru we have been focusing on developing our number knowledge. Number knowledge is so important and not something that can be left to chance. We recognise that number knowledge plays an important part in problem solving and the ability to think flexibly.
We are using a variety of resources and hands on materials to explore place value and how numbers are made up.
As well as teaching the 'maths content' we have also been laying the foundations and teaching our students how to work together to solve problems, how to listen, agree, challenge and contribute to group maths activities. When students are working together to solve problems they have the opportunity to test their thinking, correct misconceptions and ultimately develop a healthy curiosity and love of maths.
We want to be finding all the maths opportunities in our world, across our rich cultures and real life contexts. Watch this space for more exciting maths learning.
These are some examples of our students using hands on materials to make numbers and practise our sequencing, writing and reading of numbers to 100.
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