{"id":269470,"date":"2022-01-13T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T11:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=269470"},"modified":"2022-01-13T17:30:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T13:30:57","slug":"time-to-roll-up-the-sleeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2022\/01\/13\/time-to-roll-up-the-sleeves\/","title":{"rendered":"time to roll up the sleeves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/01\/317761169-Dr-Seuss-TODAY-in-YOUR-day-Your-font-b-MOUNTAIN-b-font-is-wa-wall-art.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-269471 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/01\/317761169-Dr-Seuss-TODAY-in-YOUR-day-Your-font-b-MOUNTAIN-b-font-is-wa-wall-art-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/186;\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 A new term and new challenges await..<\/p>\n<p>Covid continues to cause concern but being vigilant and maintaining social distance, sanitizing and wearing masks will allow us to hopefully continue face-to-face learning.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest challenge for grades 7-8 in Maths, science and indeed any subject is to <strong><em>accept responsibility<\/em> <\/strong>for completing tasks, developing a habit of work and study. Reading and writing remain essential core skills to work on all the time. In science there is a fair amount of self-study and self-assessments &#8211; designed to improve language and subject specific skills.<\/p>\n<p>In Maths, we have now completed a catch-up program (grade 7) and the pace of work will increase. Students are expected to do homework if they do not complete tasks in class. Some self-study in both Maths and science &#8211; just reading over the day&#8217;s work on a regular basis &#8211; will improve retention and memory recall. So please encourage this &#8211; about 15 minutes per day is sufficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 A new term and new challenges await.. Covid continues to cause concern but being vigilant and maintaining social distance, sanitizing and wearing masks will allow us to hopefully continue face-to-face learning. The biggest challenge for grades 7-8 in Maths, science and indeed any subject is to accept responsibility for completing tasks, developing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myp","category-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}