Welcome to Kindle 2, 2010

I hope everyone has had a great holiday and tried some of the 'Things to do over the holidays' ideas. If not, there is still time.

Reading
Internationally there is growing evidence that holiday time spent without reading will result in a regression in reading level, so your child can:

• Visit the Library
• Read bedtime or anytime stories
• Make stories with the word cards and read them
• Visit this wiki and try some of the activities
  

http://mrsdakersclass.wikispaces.com/Reading

Writing

• Make stories with the word cards, then write and illustrate them
• Draw a picture plan and try his or her own writing
• Write shopping lists or letters together

Maths

• Practice counting forwards and backwards, first to 10 and then 20
• Read the numbers on the telephone, calendar, letterboxes
• Play card games
• Count pegs, knives and forks, anything you can find
• Visit this wiki and try some of the activities

http://mrsdakersclass.wikispaces.com/Maths

For Fun visit this website

www.poissonrouge.com

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

All the children have a note in their book bags about things they can do over the holidays to maintain their progress in reading, writing and mathematics.

Have a great holiday, see you all next year.

Visit to Pixie Town

Here are some of the Kindle 2 children having their photo taken with Santa at Pixie Town. It looks like I am saying "Shhhh" but I was actually saying "Just a minute, let me get the other children for a photo"

What a fun visit, thank you to all the parents and grandparents who came to help us.

Our Topic for Term 4 is 'Floating and Sinking'



















We have been experimenting with a variety of objects






























We found out that some things float ......






























and some things sink .....

















Hmmmm, I wonder if there is anything the same about things that float and things that sink?

Discovery Time

 

Terrific Technology

Look at all the clever things we made for the school fair!

Writing Numbers

Here are some fun rhymes I got at a recent Maths Symposium to help children remember how to write numbers. I have been using them in the classroom.

0 - Make an oval, be a hero
That's the way to make a zero!

1 - Just a line and then you're done
That's the way to make a one!

2 - Around and across and then you're through
That's the way to make a two!

3 - Around the tree, around the tree
Number three looks like a B!

4 - Down and across and down some more
That's the way to make a four!

5 - Short neck, belly fat
Number five wears a hat!

6 - Around and around until it sticks
That's the way to make a six!

7 - Across the sky and down from heaven
That's the way to make a seven!

8 - Make an S and close the gate
That's the way to make an eight!

9 - First a circle, then a line
That's the way to make a nine!



Look at these Kindle 2 children busy working on their Maths Activities