Week Three

Wow, I can't believe how quickly the time seems to be going!
During Week Two of our programme we have continued to work on adding tens and hundreds to numbers.
We have used popsticks to help us with this (see the photos below)

The advantage of using the popsticks is that children get the sense of the "size" of each of the place value colums (The next one up being 10 times bigger). They can also see that the bundle of 100 sticks is made of 10 bundles of 10. This is critical to understanding Place Value.
We have also continued to develop Basic Facts learning. The children have identified which specific ones they need to learn. I encourage Parents and Whanau to work with their children on practicing these.
The enthusiasm of the children is terrific for learning.
Mr Saunders