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YEAR AT SCHOOL
AT SCHOOL
If your child is meeting the Reading
Standard after one year at school
...they will be reading books at green level on the
colour wheel.
They will understand the stories they read, use many
words that they already know, and will be able to
check that their reading sounds like talking.
Colour wheel
The colour
wheel levels
begin at
magenta where
the books are
simple, and move
through red, yellow and
blue to green, getting slightly harder and
more complex at each colour. Your child
will cover the orange to gold levels in their
second and third years at school.
To meet the standard
your child will be learning to:
understand and talk about the stories they read
As your child reads this story they might:
share favourite parts with others
talk about what might happen next
use groups of letters they know to check or work
out some new words
think about how their grandparents and parents
got to school
recognise and use many commonly-used words
talk about other things that are different now
from what they were like in the past
read smoothly
enjoy reading and solving problems as they read.
The pictures should also help them to solve the
word or check they have got the word right.
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The Way it Was
by Dot Meharry,
illustrated by Spike Wademan
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finding out how your child is doing and working together to support their learning.
Copyright for the text, illustrations and/or photographs
is as stated in the original publication.
Green level books look like
use what they know about other words to work
out ones they dont know.
SUPPORTING YOUR CHILDS READING
READING
AT HOME
Make reading fun
Reading at home should be fun and easy
something you both look forward to; a time
for laughter and talk.
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Share the reading, take turns or see whether
your child wants to read or be read to today.
All children like to be read to, so keep reading to them.
You can read in your first language.
Visit the library together to help them choose
books to share.
If your child is
stuck on a word
:
Read emails from family or whnau aloud.
Play card and board games together.
Talk about reading
Talk about pictures in books.
Talk about the learning they are doing
and what they are most interested in.
Sing waiata and songs, make up rhymes
together the funnier the better.
Be a role model. Let your child see you
enjoying reading and talk about what
you are enjoying.
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Share favourite books, point out words on signs,
shops and labels, read poems and play word games
like I Spy and Simon Says
Make it a special time together
Reading is a great chance for you and your child
to spend special time together. Make reading:
quiet and relaxing
a time to sit close to your child
Help your child to link
.
stories to their own life
Remind them about
what they have done
when a similar thing
happens in the story.
1015 minutes without interruption,
away from the TV
an enjoyable, interesting and special time
a time to praise your child for making
an effort.
Support your child...
As parents, family and whnau you play a big part in your childs learning
every day, and you can support and build on what they learn at school too.
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AFTER
writing
YEAR AT SCHOOL
AT SCHOOL
If your child is meeting the Writing
Standard after one year at school
...they will be writing within
curriculum level 1.
This example of student writing has been reproduced by kind permission of the writer Crown 2009.
Their writing will be for many
different purposes in many areas of the
curriculum. Some pieces of writing they
create might be reports about a visit
(social sciences) or about caring for a
pet (science). They will be able to read
and talk about what they have written.
To meet the standard
your child will be learning to:
show they can plan what they want to write about
through talking, drawing or perhaps in words
link their story to their everyday experiences
use many words they know from their reading.
In this writing, the child has:
used a picture to plan their writing
written several sentences
used full stops and capital letters.
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SUPPORTING YOUR CHILDS WRITING
WRITING
AT HOME
Make writing fun
Help your child write an alphabet
letter, then go letter hunting in your
house or in a book to find that letter.
Let your child see you writing
you can use your first language.
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Encourage them to write shopping
lists or make birthday cards.
Display their
work.
Be proud of
it
Share it with .
others.
Give them reasons to write
Water and a paintbrush on a dry path and a stick
on sand are fun ways to write letters and words.
Write to each other. Write notes to your
child and leave them in interesting places,
like their lunch box. Ask them to write a reply.
Help them email, text or write to family,
whnau or friends.
Show them how letters and words are formed.
Work with them to put labels on special things
like the door to their room or their toy box.
Talk about their writing
Talk about the letters in your childs name
and where the name comes from.
Help them create a scrapbook with pictures.
Encourage them to write stories under the
pictures and talk to you about them.
Encourage writing
Have felt pens, pencils,
crayons and paper
available.
Put magnetic letters on
the fridge ask what
words they can make
with the letters.
Ask them to write about pictures
they draw on paper or on the
computer. Get them to tell you
the story. Write or
type the story
under their
writing if they
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As parents, family and whnau you play a big part in your childs learning
every day, and you can support and build on what they learn at school too.
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SCHOOL
YEAR AT SCHOOL
To meet the standard
your child will be learning to:
If your child is meeting the Mathematics
Standard after one year at school
solve mathematics problems up to 10, then up to 20
count forwards and backwards with numbers up to
20, then up to 100, and know the number before
and the number after any given number
...they will be working at early curriculum
level 1, solving realistic problems using their
growing understanding of number, algebra,
geometry, measurement and statistics.
explore patterns, shapes and measurement
They are likely to be counting from 1 using
their fingers or objects to solve problems.
They may be starting to count in their heads
and beginning to recognise number patterns
like 3 + 2 = 5.
find out interesting facts by asking and
answering questions (e.g., how many chairs are
there in the classroom?).
Mathematics problems
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Here are some animal cards.
Please arrange them so someone
else can see how many of each
animal there are at the zoo.
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organise and share objects
talk about where they are, how they got there and
where there are going I am in front of the tree,
I am behind you
This is a small part of the skills
and knowledge your child is
learning in order to meet this
standard. Talk to the teacher for
more information about your
childs learning.
I have sorted the animals into
rows. There are 4 zebras. By looking at
each row and counting the animals, I
worked out there are more monkeys
than any other animal.
How many zebras are there?
Which animal is there the most of?
Work together...
Help support your childs learning by building a good relationship with your childs teacher,
finding out how your child is doing and working together to support their learning.
Focus on number
During your childs first
year at school, 6080
percent of mathematics
teaching time will focus
on number learning.
SUPPORTING YOUR CHILDS MATHEMATICS
MATHEMATICS
AT HOME
Use easy, everyday activities
Involve your child in:
preparing and sharing out food
one for me and one for you.
Ask, How many for each of us?
Talk together and have fun
with numbers and patterns
talking about time lunchtime,
storytime, bedtime
Help your child to:
using words in everyday play like under,
over, between, around, behind,
up, down, heavy, light, round,
circle, yesterday, tomorrow.
You can get library books
with these words and
ideas in them, too
find numbers around your home and
neighbourhood clocks, letterboxes,
speed signs
count forwards and backwards (microwave,
clocks, fingers and toes, letterboxes, action
rhymes, signs)
make patterns when counting clap 1,
stamp 2, clap 3, stamp 4, clap 5
asking questions like How
many apples do we need
for lunches? What do you
think the weather is going
to be like today/tomorrow?
What are we going to do next?
do sums using objects or in their head
(e.g., 2 + 3, 4 +1, 5 + 4, 6 + 2)
make up number stories you have 2
brothers and 2 sisters.
There are 4 of them.
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For wet afternoons/school holidays/weekends
create a sorting box with all sorts
of treasure bottle tops, shells,
stones, poi, toys, acorns, pounamu
(greenstone), cardboard shapes,
leaves. Ask questions like how
many?, which is the biggest group?,
which is the smallest?, how many
for each of us?
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As parents, family and whnau you play a big part in your childs learning
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bake talk to your child about the recipe/
ingredients using words like how many? how
much? more. Count how many teaspoons
of baking soda are needed, how many cups of
flour, how many muffin cases
play dress-ups and getting dressed,
use words like short, long, and ask
questions like what goes on first?,
what goes on next?, does it fit?
do jigsaw puzzles, play card and board
games and build with blocks.
Get together with your child and:
play with water using different shaped
containers and measuring cups in the
sink or bath
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