Week commencing 19th September - Resourcefulness Resourcefulness comprises ten dispositions: Questioning, Remembering, Imitating, Making Connections, Transferring, Adaptability and Flexibility, Reasoning, Scavenging and Recycling At School • It is important that the pupils are able to use and remember their vast phonics knowledge and apply this information when beginning to write independently. • As adults we are acutely aware that we model behaviours for the pupils every day, knowing that the children will imitate the behaviour they see. • As well as being able to read the sounds and words on pages, the pupils now need to be able to question, reason and comprehend the text they read and explain what is happening and explain their ideas. • In Maths the children need to apply and transfer their knowledge to different problems and also give reason for the way they have worked out the answers. • Every classroom has a recycling bin which we encourage the children to use and we also look at how we can use materials around us to incorporate them in pieces of art or other areas of our work before we throw things away. At Home Encourage your child to use items around the house to create a piece of art or make junk models and re-cycle as many items as possible. Ask questions: What could we use this box for instead of throwing it away? Do you think we could make a car, boat or castle from this large box we have? How can we use some of the things we have around the home and turn them into something more useful? When your child finds reading a word difficult or a maths question challenging, ask them to remember and use the things they do know and apply it to the new word or challenge etc. 16 September 2016
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