FIE Term 2

TERM TWO FIE COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS of FOCUS

Planning & Systematic Search / Comparing

These are the key cognitive functions for term two. Ask your child to explain these to you at home. Below are some of the skills the students will display when they have mastered each of these cognitive functions.

Planning

Students can:

• Make a plan and follow it
• Know where to start
• Know when to use a plan
• Make sure their verbal responses are organised
• Value the purpose of plan

Where do we use it - stop and think and plan - Gala Day, cooking a recipe, getting yourself to trials, what I need to take to school - packing my own bag, what to take to workshops, SOLO

Systematic Search / Comparing

Students can:

• Systematically search using a planned strategy
• Scan the ‘whole’ to gather relevant information
• Use comparative behaviour to systematically organise data
• Systematically search for differences and similarities
• Use what they already know to move forward and solve the problems

Where do we use it - looking for lost keys, wordsearch, comparing / systematically looking at a success criteria and comparing it to our work, sports field, driving a car - street signs

It would be helpful if this language can be used at home. When you see your child struggling with a function try asking them:

"Did you make a plan before you started?”

“How can be more systematic in your search for...?"  

“Are you being systematic?”  

“What system would be best to find..?”

“Can you compare what you already know, to what is being asked of you now?”

Team Red Art

Thumb print chickens. CREATIVE.

House Chants

By Cooper

The house chants are a major success. The point of the house chants are to support your house in sports. But one house was having trouble learning their house chant. Luckily with a bit of practice they managed to learn it.

                                     

Survive and Thrive

by Jackson and Alex

Next term our inquiry topic is Survive and Thrive. We are going to an EOTC trip to Spencer Park to learn about survival building & crafting.

Here are some ideas that we have come up with that might drive our inquiry. Up the top there are some different categories that students have made. We are looking forward to studying this topic.

Maths- Finding similarities

Today we found similarities between houses. We looked at combinations of similarities.
It was interesting that most students chose to do this on the iPad but some did it in their maths book.
Please look in our 2017 Maths media folders to see the finished results.

GALA Day tomorrow!

It is happening rain or shine! Don't miss out!

Canterbury Duathlon

by Fran

On Monday the 24th of March the Canterbury Duathlon was held at Ruapuna raceway. The children who did the Duathlon at school were supposed to go to zones for another Duathlon but it was cancelled because of the rain. Everyone who was going to zones went to the Canterbury Duathlon.

At 7.00 it was raining heavily. It looked like it would be cancelled but it was still on anyway. When the children got to the racetrack, they rode their bikes to the bike stands.  All the schools had flags where they set up but Lincoln Primary didn't have a flag. It wasn't long before all the 10 year old contestants lined up in alphabetical order of their school. It took about 20 minutes before the martials started putting transponder straps around the students ankles so that the martials knew if they had done the full course.

All the children ran to the start of the racetrack. There were 157 children in the 10 year old boys race. The whistle blew and everyone sprinted at first to get in front. The best strategy was to keep the same pace throughout the running. The running was two kilometres long, but the biking was 9 kilometres. When the running was over the children jogged over to the bike stands to get there bikes. The children who found their bikes first got a big headstart.

The biking was the time to use up your energy because you could go so fast with so little energy. Most children had road bikes because the biking was on concrete and road bikes have thin wheels and they are lighter. There were big puddles on the track that were fun to go through but would slow you down. As the rain poured on the children, it felt exciting. The children had nearly finished the first lap out of two laps. On the second lap of the biking everyone rode faster. When the biking was over the children got off their bikes and parked them in the bike stands and there was still another kilometre of running.

After the biking, the children's legs would feel very stiff. As the tired children ran quickly, their shoes were full of water. It was almost the end of the duathlon and it was very exhausting. As the children crossed the finish line parents and relatives cheered them on.

Once the race had finished and the excitement was over the children who were now completely soaked drove back home and then back to school. The Canterbury Duathlon was an awesome event.

The Circle Challenge

BioBlitz Activities

Here is a list of BioBlitz activities happening around Lincoln this Friday and Saturday. It's going to be lots of fun!