Developing Home/School Partnerships for Priority Learners

Using profile sheets to identify needs. Much of content has been taught in class but priority learners need more support with practise. Meet with parents showing them identified needs from profile sheets. Discussion around strategies to help and practise that can be done at home. Provided family with all the equipment they will need to do this. We will meet in 6 weeks time to assess further where the child is at and where to next.

Reflection on Reading

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/03/26/why-kids-need-to-move-touch-and-experience-to-learn/

On reading this article I have reflected on a recent lesson where the children, even with materials, just could not understand what the problem was asking. I was sure it wasn't because it was beyond their abilities but that they could not understand the concept of "each", as discussed in this article. In frustration I stood the children up, we went to a different part of the room and acted the problem out. It was only then that the penny dropped and they were able to gain some understanding and begin to solve the problem. After reading this article this is something that I will try with my unrelenting focus children to see if it helps them to understand and decipher problems more easily.

19.6.16 This week we will be using "real life" contexts. Cutting up sandwiches into halves to introduce the concept of division. Later group sharing jelly beans into equal groups.