Cooking/baking (measuring and weighing, introducing fractions)
Ask questions about time and practise reading analogue clocks e.g. What is the time? How many minutes until dinner?
Create practical problems at home to solve such as building something and working out the space (area) needed to put it.
Practise basic facts including addition, subtraction and times tables using cards, songs or computer games such as timestables.co.nz , maths.prototec.co.nz or continue with the online maths tool already used in the Middle School Mathletics.com
Writing
Write an email or letter to send to a relative together
Encourage your child to keep a journal of ideas, collect things in it, write down interesting topics or words or record a recent trip
Let your child see you be a writer and that you write for many different purposes - letters, work assignments, emails etc.
Provide a range of reading materials around the house such as magazines, newspapers, picture books, novels, encyclopedias, comics and cookbooks.
Play games like Scrabble, Bananagrams, Boggle, word finders or crosswords to encourage learning about vocabulary
Important Notices
The Minister of Education has advised that schools may have 2 teacher-only days to address the new maths and literacy programmes. SPC staff are joining other Catholic schools on Monday, 19th May and Monday 14th July (not Friday,15th August) as previously advertised. The days will be facilitated by advisers from the Ministry of Education.
TEACHER ONLY DAY
MONDAY 14TH JULY
SCHOOL CLOSED