Reading Goals

This week we had our Student Led Conferences and these were my Reading Goals:

1. To read more challenging books
2. To read more books
3. To read faster

Here is my plan of how I will achieve these goals.

1.  To read more challenging books I will go to the Library and use I PICK to choose:

• books that make me think (e.g. non-fiction books that I can use for projects);
• chapter books that don't have very many pictures in them;
• books by authors I haven't read before.

2.   To read more books I will:

• follow the read to self student actions during SSR;

• read one book for at least 30 minutes at home every day;
• read more than one book each day (e.g. I will have a book at school and a different 1 at home).

3.  To read faster I will:

• read more at home because practice makes you faster;
• graph how many words/pages I can read in 30 minutes once a week;
• search for how to speed read and try to do this (my Mum is going to try this too and we are going to have a competition to see who improves the most).

I am going to give myself until the end of the April holidays to complete these goals.

Maths Goals

This week we had our Student Led Conferences and these were my Maths Goals:

1. To get faster at basic facts
2. To get better at solving problems with algorithms
3. To write better learning reflections that describe more about what I learned

Here is my plan of how I will achieve these goals.

1.  To get faster at basic facts I will practise multiplication and division by:

• using Mathletics 20-30 minutes each day at home (I might not always do it on the weekends)
• using the Tables Mountain daily until I can answer them in 4-5 seconds (then I will do this 1-2 times a week)

• changing the Tables Mountain so I can learn the division problems
• using Maths games on the iPad and graphing my times to see how fast I am getting 2-3 times each week (e.g. Wipeout Wall and Division Descent)

  

2.  To get better at solving problems with algorithms I will:

• complete all my class work and use the instructions and examples in the text book if I get stuck
• write neatly in my maths book so that my teacher can read my work easily
• work with Mum to learn how to do algorithms
• practise solving 5-10 problems with algorithms at home each day (I might not do all of this stuff in the weekend) 

3.  To write better learning reflections that describe more about what I learned I will:

• search for examples of good learning reflections and check these with my teacher; 
• make a learning reflections checklist at home and show it to my teacher; 
• use the learning reflections checklist when I am writing my learning reflections.

I am going to give myself until half way through Term 2 to complete these goals.