WALTs+W5T4

 2:45-3:30 You can buy books from the staffroom. |||| Dress as a book character… bring the book along too. ||^  ||  **Please ensure your log is filled in to share with me each day.**  ||
 * **Wātaka o Te Wiki Pukapuka** ||
 * **Monday** |||| **Tuesday** |||| **Wednesday** || **Thursday** |||| **Thursday** ||  **SHOW DAY** ||
 * Māuria mai ō koutou tino pukapuka kia pānuitia! |||| NZ Author Ben Brown 10:30 Rm 10 to read to us. |||||| Scholastic Book Display 8:30-9:15 and
 * Mahi Kāika
 * 1. Spelling words; practice each day… good activity for the car.

2. Read your favourite books and bring them to school to share… fill in your reading log please everyone.

3. Maths: Discuss the probability of different events using the words; will, will not, might, probably, probably not. P.S. can any parents come in some time this week to help with some simple maths assessments?

4. Manu Kōrero: do you know it all? Practice the hard bits. Are you learning the new tauparapara that Pā has given us? Have you got a kīwaha and/or a whakataukī that will support your kaupapa? || & select/record new words |||| Maths “I can” I need parent helpers please. |||||| Maths “I can” I need parent helpers please. |||| Buddy Spelling Test || Capacity |||| Shapes 2D & 3D |||||| Probability Clarify Concepts |||| Measurement Time || **Parent Education tips for reading** (from Bamford Primary School’s websit) HOW CAN YOU ENCOURAGE READING AT HOME. As a parent, you are your child's first - and most important - teacher. Here are eight ways you can help your child become a better reader. 1. Read yourself. Your actions really do speak louder than your words. When your kids see you reading the newspaper or curling up with a book, they will want to follow your example. 2. Make sure your children read every day. Reading - like shooting baskets and playing the piano - is a skill. Like other skills, it gets better with practice. Researchers have found that children who spend at least 30 minutes a day reading for fun - whether they read books, newspapers, or magazines - develop the skills to be better readers at school. 3. Get the library habit. Make sure everyone in your family has a library card. Schedule regular trips to the library. While you are there, check out a book yourself! 4. Read aloud to the children. In *The Read Aloud Handbook*, Jim Trelease reports on research showing that this is the most important thing parents can do to help their children become better readers. Here are some tips from the book: 5. Here is a way to use your newspaper to encourage reading: a scavenger hunt. Give your child a list of things to find in today's newspaper. Here are some ideas: 6. Give books as gifts. Then find a special place for your children to keep their own library. 7. Make reading a privilege. Say, "You can stay up 15 minutes later tonight if you read in bed." Or you might say, "Because you helped with the dishes, I have time to read you an extra story." 8. If you are not a good reader, you can still encourage your children. As your children learn to read, ask them to read to you. Talk about the books your children have read. Ask a friend or relative to read aloud to your children. OR YOU MIGHT LIKE TO TAKE AN IDEA FROM THE SUGGESTION LIST FOR TEACERS Activities for teachers to get students reading:
 * Testing ||
 * Spelling Test
 * Pākarau Activities ||
 * Measurement
 * Computer Pod #1Timetable ||
 * 12:30 – 3pm |||| 10 -11am |||||| 10 -11am |||| 10 -11am ||
 * Start reading to your children when they are young. It is never too early to begin reading to your children, according to Trelease.
 * Don't stop reading to your children as they grow older. You will both enjoy the chance to do something together.
 * Set aside some time each day for reading aloud. Even 10 minutes a day can have a big impact. Bedtime is a natural reading aloud time. Other busy families read aloud at breakfast or just after dinner.
 * Read books you enjoy. Your kids will know if you are faking it.
 * A map of the United States.
 * A picture of your child's favorite athlete.
 * The temperature in the city where a family member lives.
 * Three words that begin with "w".
 * A movie that is playing at a nearby theater.


 * Share your favourite books with your class and talk about why they are your favourites.
 * Read aloud to your class every day.
 * Ask children to bring a favourite book to share as an alternative oral language activity to daily news.
 * Re-tell a story using the illustrations as a guide to sequence the plot.
 * Take a poetry break where everyone shares a favourite poem.
 * Build up a class scrapbook of favourite poems.
 * Encourage students to keep reading logs of books read.
 * Devise and write a new ending for a known story.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sketch the characters or make a map of the setting from a novel.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conduct a survey of family and friends to determine the best book they have every read.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have a shared book party.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make a bookmark for every book in the class library. Get every student to rate each book on the back of the bookmark.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hot seat a main book character with students asking questions of them.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make a badge to promote reading.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E-mail a friend to tell them about a great book you have read.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thought-track a character through a novel.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Construct a book quiz for another class and take turns to test each other’s book knowledge.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take pictures to show the places you see people reading and show what they are reading.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have a book lunch. Bring in a dish mentioned in a favourite book to share with the class.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be a book explorer and venture into books you have never read before.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a checklist of books students want to read.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design a library poster, a bookmark, a mobile or a puppet from a favourite story.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Put the name of a book character on a headband. The student wearing it has to guess who they are by asking closed questions.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Compare and contrast different illustrator’s styles.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make a giant bookworm to display individual book reviews on.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have a book swap day for comics, magazines and books.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Build a literacy wall in the classroom. Students write and illustrate about a book they have read on a brick and add it to the wall.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interview a child as a book character, asking them about their role and their behaviour in the book.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Listen to students’ recordings of books being read aloud.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make magnifying glasses and send emergent readers on a hunt for high frequency words as they read around the room.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Put the names of the characters from a novel into a hat. Have students draw out names and hold a character conversation.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rewrite a story as a play. Plan the production, the staging, costumes and props.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Write a letter from the point of view of one of the characters in a story.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine you have been transported to a scene in a story. Describe what you can see, hear and smell.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Give a book character the media treatment in a television interview or magazine article.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ask students to recommend books they have read to their classmates and suggest who might enjoy the book.