WALTs+W3T4

29.10.10 Kia ora te Whānau,

= One-on-one time with your tamaiti  = I will be sending home some home work, please take the time to help your child as I have made these practice sheets to prepare them for their reading test... to be help later on during week next week. In preparation for our reports I will be assessing children in all curriculum areas. I have done some preliminary testing to see how the tamariki are doing in the run up to these assessments and would really like to give them a chance to practice the following worksheets as it was a bit tricky for many of them. The year 2 children are still too young for the following types of formal testing however I thought that it would be good preparation for next year for them to start familiarizing themselves with this type of assessment too. Please take some time each night to do a segment of work with your child. Please try and keep it pleasant and stress free so they don’t assosiate this type of work with a stressful situation. For the “Name the Picture” activity, if they have difficulty reading the words, look at the 1. beginning sounds, 2. end sounds, 3 middle sounds and 4. always check for any tricks!

Please ask your child to what their Reading, Maths and Writing goals "WALTs" are for this week. We have discussed them but they have not recorded them as we have had two major interruptions with Labour Day and Athletics Day. I wonder if they're able to share them with you?