Term Four Week 2

We have posted a link to the Taranaki Sprints on the Matanginui Wiki. When you open them you will see there are 100 questions for each one. We have set a 4 minute time limit for each of them (The record is 1 minute 8 seconds)

The photos below show the resources we have been using to learn fractions. We keep the main ideas as simple as possible. The main idea being that the top number in the fraction tells us how many pieces we have and the bottom number tells us how many pieces to make 1 whole or how big each piece is. When we say a fraction we are saying that anyway. 3 quarters means we have 3 pieces and they are quarters.

We have also had our 200th visitor to our blog. Thankyou to those parents who continue to follow our progress on our blog.

Term Four Week One

Our first week back at school. We spent our time revising last terms work on Basic Facts and Place Value.
We also introduced "Taranaki Sprints" as a way of increasing our speed of recall for times tables. I will attach an example sheet of what they look like.
Although this term is short we are very focussed on our learning as this is our last 8 weeks together.
Next week we will begin Fraction Knowledge learning.