Letter to my future teacher

For writing workshops we have to write a letter to our teacher next year. We don't know who our teacher will be but we will find out the last week of term.
The success criteria we used was this:

• start off with the date

• To my new teacher,

• Hi my name is ........... and I am currently a student at Wainui Beach School. I want to tell you a  little bit about myself.

• subjects you like and why

• subjects you feel you need help with and why

• activities a school you like and why

• anything else you want to share

• I am really looking forward to meeting you 

• from your new student .......!

Here is my letter:

Wednesday 28th November 2018

To my new teacher,

Hi my name is Sophie  and I am currently a student at Wainui Beach School, I have 2 guinea pigs and a dog and I love animals. I want to tell you a little bit about myself.

I like maths, writing, reading, art and PE. I love maths because it's a challenge, writing because you can explore new ideas, and reading because it inspires me with new ideas and I like to read.

The subjects I need help with is spelling. I also want to learn more with maths, geometry.

 The activities at school I like are music, sports, arts, and gymnastics.

I love gymnastics and I am a step 4, and I love animals. I would also love it if you would give me homework. I like working in a small space only with a couple of friends. Next year I can't wait to be a year six and go on camp.

I am really looking forward to meeting you.

From your new student, Sophie.

Ninja Maths

Each week we have to complete 240 maths questions for our basic facts challenge. 60 a day. We have divisions and times table questions, most of them are easy but take a while to complete all 60 questions. In our book we draw out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays grid and then we get out the sheet on our chromebooks and copy just the answers in our books.  We are doing Ninja maths because we want to learn all our times tables because they help with a lot with maths. Here is an example of a ninja maths sheet:

My next steps are percentages, decimals and fractions converting them into each other. There is a game called decention and it helps you converting fractions into decimals and percentages.  

This is our new Basic Facts challenge helps with fractions, percentages and decimals.