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INQUIRY LEARNING IS ALL ABOUT STUDENTS TAKING OWNERSHIP OF THEIR LEARNING.
The students will have plenty of opportunities throughout the year to use the skills of inquiry learning to further their knowledge. This process involves students taking control of what and how they learn, and will eventually present their information in a variety of ways e.g power point, booklet, poster. .

The specific skills covered in Reading, Writing and Maths lessons will also be integrated across all other learning areas.
=**__Term 3__**= =//Each night talk to your children about the things they have done in class that day.S ome weeks students will have some research or questionnaire for you as part of their topic.//=
 * Daily Homework**
 * =Each student has a chapter book chosen from the library they read each day at school or a journal from their book box. Please ask them about the story, who is involved, what happened, why etc. They need to put time aside each night to read.=
 * =Basic facts, remember to also include division=

This term we will continue with our Careers topic "Dream and Discover" and will be looking at what makes me, 'me'. This involves the inquiry learning model.
== For the first 5 weeks of the term we are studying 'Land of the long white Cloud' and what it means to be a kiwi. There will be a videoing component that will involve students in groups presenting an aspect of kiwiana. ==

**Term 1**
Early this term we will be looking at De Bono's "Six Thinking Hats" This is where teaching students how to learn is important. The students learn to approach everyday situations in and out of the classroom from many different perspectives.While many of our students are familiar with the thinking hats we will revise them early on.

We will also cover Blooms Taxonomy that looks at higher levels of thinking in their school work.

We have started the 16 habits of mind and will focus on one every three weeks: They are

 * Perseverance- stick to it
 * Communicating clearly and precisely
 * Managing impulsiveness - stick to it
 * Taking responsible risks
 * Responding - have fun figuring it out
 * Gathering data through all senses
 * Listening with understanding and empathy
 * Creating, imagining and innovating
 * Thinking flexibly
 * Thinking about your thinking
 * Striving for accuracy and precision
 * Finding humour
 * Questioning and problem posing
 * Thinking interdependently
 * Applying past knowledge to new situations
 * Remaining open to continuous learning



= Term One =

__Language:__ Variety of writing: procedural, explanation, personal recounts and descriptive. Grammar, punctuation and spelling

__Science:__ Planet Earth: Weather and Erosion- how has earths surface changed over the years. In particular the mountains around Titoki and the Mangahakia valley and our local river and streams

__Social Studies:__ Developing empathy and taking responsibility for the choices individual students make. Participating and contributing to a positive classroom/school environment. ANZAC's: who are they? What role have they played in determining our history

__Visual Language/Information communication Technology__ Cyber Safety, Use of specific computer programmes to support their learning.

==**Homework:** Students are expected to read every night. This may be journals from school, books from the school library or their own chapter books. Newspapers are ideal as they can keep up with current news events. .==

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