This school is a Nut Free Zone. We have several children attending our school who have a life threatening allergy to nuts. Thank you for your support. 12 Church Street, HAHNDORF, 5245. Ph: 8388 7058 Email: [email protected] Website: www.hahndorfps.sa.edu.au MON 18/11/19 to WED 20/11/19 Book Fair FRIDAY 22/11/19 Years 3 to 7 Rugby Clinics FRIDAY 29/11/19 All library books due back 5.00 End of Year Picnic Assembly TUESDAY 4/12/19 Rooms 5 & 6 Premier Night FRIDAY 6/12/19 9.00 - 11.30 New Reception Transition 9.00 New Parent Information Session WEDNESDAY 11/12/19 Rec to Year 7 Woodside Pool Fun Day 9.00 - 10.30 Pre-Entry Morning 2.30 Preschool Red Group Graduation THURSDAY 12/12/19 7.00 Year 7 Graduation FRIDAY 13/12/19 1.30 Preschool Blue Group Graduation 2.00 Preschool Dismissal 1.45 Farewell Assembly 2.15 School Dismissal TERM 4 WEEK 5 14th November 2019 Bushfires and Your Child’s School or Preschool A Guide for Families Parents are encouraged to access a brochure which provides important information about what our school/ preschool will do on a catastrophic fire day or in the event of a fire. Bushfires can occur at any time during summer. It’s important that our families understand our Site Emergency Plan, are prepared and have a plan in place for their family when these situations arise. If there is a bushfire emergency while children are onsite we will keep them safe until the danger has cleared even if this is outside of normal school hours. For a copy of the brochure visit www.decd.sa.gov.au and search ‘bushfire brochure’. Have you heard of the word “array”? If no, I can guarantee that you see many arrays each day. An array is an arrangement of objects, pictures, or numbers in columns and rows. It is a visual representation of multiplication. Look at the pictures . Do you want to count them all, or count one row and times by the number of columns? It is about working efficiently with numbers. This is multiplicative thinking. Multiplicative thinking has been identified as one of the most important and also most difficult mathematical concepts for learners to develop. It is the transition from moving from addition to multiplication to solve problems. Multiplicative thinking is a prerequisite for the understanding of fractions, decimals, ratio and percentages. Multiplicative thinking incorporates the capacity to work flexibly with the concepts, strategies and representations of multiplication (and division) as they occur in a wide range of contexts, together with the ability to communicate this in words, diagrams or symbolic expressions. Multiplicative thinking involves recognising and working with relationships between numbers whereas additive thinking only requires a capacity to work with numbers themselves. As a parent, you can do many small things to help develop an understanding of multiplicative thinking: Look for arrays in everyday life Use multiplication to work out how many is in the array. With younger children talk about rows and columns For younger students practice counting in twos, fives and tens Help students develop strategies. Not every child can learn by rote and strategies will help you work with bigger numbers When multiplying by two, double. 542 times 2 becomes 1084 When multiplying by four, double double. 542 times 4 becomes 1084, 2168 When multiplying by three, double and then add the original number. 19 times 3 becomes 38 then 57 Or use a friendly number, 19 times 3 becomes 20 times three minus three When multiplying by five multiply by ten and then half If you don’t know 7 nines but know 5 nines, start there and then add on, don’t start at 1 times 9 Don’t be afraid to manipulate numbers, make them do the work for you, not the other way around.