Stories about today

It has been such lovely weather we all sat outside and thought about words to describe what we see, and feel. These are our superstar authors. 

The sun makes me melt. The green grass is tickling my feet. The leaves are dancing in the wind. William

The whooshing air is swirling around me. The soggy wet grass is tickling me. Saria 

The cloud is moving in the blue sky. The grass tickles my feet and toes. Tussocks are swishing in the wind. The clouds move after clouds. Eden 

The swishing tussocks are waving everywhere. It feels like a hedgehog spiking me. I feel so ticklish when it moves and I roll over on my back. It feels tickly too It is fun outside. Kiana 

The breeze is floating on my face. Grass prickles on my legs. Clouds fall on my face like candy floss. 
Ania-Kanu 

The grey clouds cover the little blue sky. After a while the clouds move away and I see the big blue sky again. Ryan 

The fluffy clouds look like candy floss. The blue sky looks like shiny glass. The whooshing wind is flowing past. Lucas 

The shaped clouds are moving around. The sun s making my eyes water. The green grass tickles my legs. Angus 

The clouds are like a fluffy cat in the sky. The back of my legs feel like fire because of the sun. Prickly grass is damp. Thin leaves are floating past. Max B

Spring

The flowers grow in spring and the daffodils grow too.

  I like them, they look like popcorn sticking to the branches.

The blossom falls from the tree and makes a carpet of petals on the ground.

By Ania- Kanu

Technology challenge

Our technology challenge today was to construct a hut from newspaper. We were so excited because it looks like a castle. The tricky part was rolling the newspaper tightly so it was strong. We helped each other to make the best castle we could. We are very proud of our hut. What do you think?

Our Fabulous Holiday Stories. We have been trying different sentence starters and using adjectives to make our stories interesting.

I fastened my boots.  I buckled my boots and slipped into my skis.  

I got better and better.  

I had a smile on my face from ear to ear.

I smiled and smiled.

I was proud of myself.

I went on the chairlift.

Ania-Kanu

I fastened my seat belt.  The air hostess said "Please be seated"

I drove in my car to my Nana's  house.

Then we went to a house beside the beach.  

The sun shone in through my window.

Olive Seddon

I flew over my poles.  I went flying and fell over.

I went with my family.

The cold air flew past my face.

I had to wear a warm jacket and a woolly hat.

Ryan Coupe

Splash! I jumped into the water.

I was proud of myself because I learnt how to swim in the swimming ring.

In the swimming ring I kicked and kicked.

It was fun.

Marley Lahood

Hip, hip hooray!!!It was my birthday.

I loved it when my friends gave me a present.

Then I opened them.  I couldn't wait to open them.

I ripped the paper off the present.

I loved when I saw the presents.

Saria Halabi

"Mmmmmm". The cookies are cooking in the oven.

  I can smell the chocolate melting.

I am stirring the mixture to mix it up.

I am eating a cookie.

It crunches in my mouth.

Ayla

Big Book Creation

WOW! 

Learning at its best!

Blaise, Chloe, and Ania Kanu worked for two days creating their own big book. They wrote a beautiful story with big pictures and bright colours. They were so proud of their learning I took the girls over to the new entrant classroom so they could read their story to the children.

Great work girls. 

We are very proud of you and your learning. 

Working on our Maths Learning Goals

We have been working hard on our Maths Learning Goals.  Look at the fabulous independent learners choosing their preferred learning activity to practice their goals.

Exploring shape

Taja has been recording her investigating of shapes and their names in her investigating book. What a great effort with spelling. 

Blaise has been investigating pattern shapes and making repeating patterns for Ania-Kanu to investigate. 

Ania-Kanu has been investigating shapes and their features. She then followed the rule for the pattern  Blaise created.  Awesome team work. 

Exploring Learning in Pod 2

Arliya and Lili are exploring learning and writing in their investigating books

Summer has been exploring the correct way to write numbers on the whiteboard.
Then she wrote it in a new language. for fun. 

Sam is exploring basic facts to 5 using multi-link cubes and a whiteboard. 

Anu and Ania-Kanu are making shapes from the Big Book

Ryan exploring shapes 

Ella and Kaya exploring shapes together

Celeste is exploring new words on the whiteboard

Marley is exploring repeating patterns with shapes from the Big Book

Kiana is exploring how to write a sentence correctly in her book. 

Waiata with Sebbie

Bird Collage

Using what we found in our gardens the children have been creating birds collages as part of our bird inquiry this term.  Ania Kanu, Ella and Kaya worked very co-operatively to help finish one of them.

My Investigating Book

There were so many children who really enjoy researching facts by themselves. We needed a place to record all of our learning. Every child was given a new, lined book called their Investigating Book. 

We have some rules to go with our Investigating Books. 

1. You can use felts, or jovi's as long as it doesn't make a mess of other pages.

2. Teachers won't mark it or put stickers in it.

3. You have to be proud and respectful of the learning you keep in your book.

4. You can draw pictures to write about, diagrams, write facts, letters, stories, research information. 

5. Teachers may give you a skill to practice in your investigation book such as writing a letter or number. 

6. If you do research at home, you can bring it to school and stick it in your investigation book to use when we do inquiry. 

7. It can't go home in case we forget to bring it back to school, when we need it. 

8. You are responsible for it so you have to look after it and put it away in your tote tray whenever you are not using it. 

The children are developing skills in self management, recording facts for a purpose, pride, respect and ownership of their learning and how to management information in a logical way. 

We couldn't stop the learning today!!! Every child has done the most amazing learning in their investigating books and are very proud of their work. They share their learning and talk about how they have worked hard to get better at a skill. 

Researching bird diagrams together

Finley practiced writing numbers to 100

Blaise and Ania-Kanu developing writing skills together in Room 0

Finley drew a diagram of the parts of a butterfly

Chantel wrote all the numbers to 100

Ethan is researching facts about feathers from a book in the question space.

Working hard in the Maths Room

 We have been working really hard in the Maths Room.  Counting forwards, backward and ,number patterns.  Look at all the different ways we can reinforce our Maths concepts.

Measuring the Kakano way ...

For week 1 and 2 we have been learning all about measurement. It has been exciting to see how the children have been practising their learning independently through our learning spaces. Here are 3 examples of different ways to find out about longer, shorter, taller and even some ways to measure this.
A group of boys including Myles, Monty, Jack and Jah joined the construction straws together to see how long they could make it. What a big challenge, nearly the length of Pod 2!



  Blaise and Ania Kanu working together to find out how to measure a row of beads. Blaise was able to read the numbers on the measuring tape and make sure she had started at the baseline,great investigating.
Amelia, Arliya and Sophie measured all of the teddies to see which one was the tallest and which one was the shortest. Very proudly they asked to go on the blog to share their learning. What was the next challenge? To build a house using the construction straws that was the right size for the toys ...