Kahas Progress

Term1

Mathematics

ProgressFutureDevelopment

Kahahasimprovedwithcountingby1s,2sand
5s.Heisabletoconfidentlycountby1swithouta
chart.Kahaishasgainedconfidenceincounting
by5swithnochart.Kahahasshownprogressin
countingby2sandcanconfidentlycountwiththe
chart,anabacusandconcretematerials.Kahacan
confidentlycountbackwardsfrom100without
assistance.

Kahawillcontinuetopracticehiscountingby
practicing5swithoutachart.Infuture,Kahacan
improvehiscountingbypracticinghis2sand
eventuallywillnotneedthechart.Kahawill
continuetoimprovecountingbackwardsfrom20by
1sandbackwardsby10s.Kahawillalsobenefit
bypracticing13and30whencounting
backwards.Wewillalsopracticereadingnumbers
suchas74and47topracticethesamenumbers
representedinadifferentway.

Kahahassignificantlyimprovedwithhisknowledge
ofplacevalue.Withassistancehecanconfidently
bundlepopsiclesticksintogroupsof10to
representanumber.Hehasalsodevelopeda
deeperunderstandingofcountingwiththepopsicle
sticks.Kahahasalsoexpressedadeep
understandingofwhichnumbersarelowerand
higherbyorderingthem.

Kahawillbenefitfrompracticeinbundlingthe
popsiclestickstorepresentmanydifferenttypesof
numbers.Itwillalsobebeneficialtoexplorethe
placevaluesysteminmoredetailandfindother
waystorepresentnumbersintheirones,tensand
hundreds.

Kahahasdemonstratedadeepunderstandingof
analogueanddigitaltimetothehour.Hehas
beguntoshowanunderstandingoftimetothehalf
hour.Kahahasmadesignificantprogresswiththe
daysoftheweekandmonthsoftheyearandcan
recognisetheirgeneralorder.

ItwillbebeneficialifKahacontinuedtopractice
timestothehalfhouronadigitalandanalogue
representation.Itwillalsobeimportanttodiscuss
seconds,minutesandhoursinordertodevelopan
understanding.Kahawillcontinuetopracticethe
daysoftheweekandmonthsoftheyearsothathe
canrecognisethewordaswellastheproperorder.

Kahahasdemonstratedacapableunderstanding
inregardstomeasurement.Hecandetermine
whichislonger,wider,heavier,tallerandwhat
couldholdmore.Kahahasdemonstratedthathe
canmeasuretheseobjectswithinformalunits.

Kahawillbenefitfromusingformalunitsto
measureobjectstoextendhisunderstanding.

Kahahasdemonstratedthathehasknowledgeof
howtocollectdataandpresentitthroughagraph.

Kahawillbenefitfrompracticingmakingpicture
chartstoensureheunderstandsthecorrectwayto
visuallypresentit.

Kahabegantodevelopanunderstandingof
positionandmovement.

Kahawillbenefitfromactivitiesthatencouragehim
todescribethepositionandmovementof
somethinganduselanguagesuchas:up,down,
across,straightetc.

Kahademonstratedthatheiscapableofdoing
Kahawillbenefitfromthecontinuedpracticeof
simpleadditionproblemsusingmaterialsaswellas additionsumswithconcretematerialsaswellas
writtensums.
sumswrittenonpaper.Wewillbegintoexplore
subtractionaswell.
Notyetexplored

Wewillbegintoexploreshapesandthenmove
intofractionsfromthis.

Notyetexplored

Wewillbegintoexplorethevalueandfeatures
Australiancoins

Kahahasdemonstratedanattentiontodetailin
sortingandclassifyingdifferentobjectsintogroups.
Hehasalsoshownanunderstandingofpatterns.

Kahawillbenefitfromsortingotherobjectsinto
moredetailedgroupsandcreatingmorecomplex
patterns

Homework:
Kahadidwellonmeasurementthisweek,maybeweshouldexplorecupsthatholdmorethrough
experimentingsoweensurethattherearenomisconceptionswithtallerislargeretc.

English

ProgressFutureDevelopment
Kahahasdemonstratedanabilitytosoundout
wordswhilereading

Kahawillbenefitfromlookingatdifferentword
blendsandusethesewhensoundingout.For
examplechinsteadofsayingcandh
individually.Recognisingthelongeesoundas
onesoundandtheeontheendofwordsasa
silentletter.

Kahahasdemonstratedanabilitytoamajorityof
themagicwords.

Wewillexplorethedifferencebetweenofand
off.Wewillalsoexplorethedifferenthigh
frequencywordswiththesamewordbeginning.

Kahahasdemonstratedthathecanrelatethetext
toanothertextandalsohisworld.Hecanretell
eventsfromthestoryandalsohasshownthathe
canrecognisethecharactersinthestory.Hehas
shownthathecansharehisopinionsandfeelings
towardsthestory.

Afterreadingastory,Kahawillbenefitfrombeing
asked,whathappenedinthebeginning,the
middleandtheendtohelpassistwithretellingthe
eventsofthestory.Wewillalsoselectstoriesthat
encourageKahatosharehisopinionsandfeelings
aboutthestoryandthecharacters.

Kahahassignificantlyimprovedinhiswritingandis Tohelpextendhiswritingwewillworkonwritinga
nowwritingasentenceaday.
shortparagraphintutoringsessions.

Kahahasdemonstratedthathecanspellsomeof
themagicwordsandisrecognisinghowwordsare
speltthroughLook,Say,Cover,Write,Check

Kahawillbenefitfromcontinuingtodolook,say,
cover,write,checkwiththemagicwords.

Kahahasbeguntodevelopanunderstandingof
wordendingsandblends.Inparticularing,ch,
sh.

Kahawillbenefitfrommorepracticeoftheword
endingsandblends.

Kahahasdevelopedanincreasedknowledgein
thedifferentpunctuationmarksinwriting.He
knowsthatafullstopalwaysgoesattheendofhis
sentence.Kaharecognisesthepurposeofan
exclamationmark.

Kahawillbenefitfrompracticingtheuseof
questionmarksinhiswritingdeterminingwhata
questionisandwhatisnt.Kahawillalsobenefit
frompracticingwhensentencesneedafullstopor
acomma.

Homework:
Kahahasbeendoingwellonhisspellingwordsandthepagesfromhisspellingbook.Hehasalsodone
reallywellwithhisreading.Hecanreadwhoonhisgreenmagicwordslistbuthadabitoftroublewiththis
wordincontextwhilereadinghisreader.

Concentration

Kahahasshownthatheisreallycomfortable
aroundmewhichisgreat.Thebackgroundmusic
hasbeenreallyeffectivewithhisconcentration
thismaybebecauseheneedssomenoiseinthe
backgroundinorderforhismindnottowander.He
wasalsoveryenthusiasticaboutmeditationwhich
willbeagreatwaytostarteverytutoringsession.

Anycommentsyouwouldliketoadd:

Inthefuturewewillfocusonsittingupstraightand
still.Wewillworkonstrategiestohelpthissuchas
takingbreaks,usingdifferentchairsetc.