Impromptu Play - The Three Little Pigs

A super duper group of learners put together a play of the three little pigs with no props or script. They were very clever in how they put the play together and organised themselves to perform so well to an audience. We are very proud of you all.

No wolves (or children) were harmed in the making of this video. 

Blaise's Blossoms!

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Blossoms are coming out. They are pink and white. They look like white scrunched tissue with pink
spots. They are blowing in  the wind and falling off the trees.

By Blaise

Blaise's Story

Splash!    I  went    to    the     beach      in      the     school      holidays.
My    mum     and       me         kicked        and        chased      and          splashed      the    waves.

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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. 

Poem by Blaise

Blowing a Balloon

 

oval

up

flying

growing

big

small

sqeeking

hurrying

floating

 

 

by Blaise

 

Blaise did some great writing.

I did some writng. Laetitia was so impressed I got to publish. It was fun.

The  cold snow is  flying. The white snow is  dancing. The snow was very cold!
By Blaise

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. 

Wordle of Feelings

Today in reading we investigated feeling words. These are some of our ideas made into a wordle. Can you think of some more?

Waiata with Sebbie

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.

Hands on Math Learning

A lot of our learning is practical hands on to help make connections between what we know and new learning gained at intensive teaching. These children have chosen to work with this equipment to help them achieve their learning goal.

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.

Word Attacks!

During Pataitai Stations we like to explore different ways to practice our word writing skills. Lucy has used a mind map to organise her learning. Sophia has been exploring new words on the word wall. Cody is using flashcards to learn new words he hasn't seen before and Blaise has written a story and drawn a picture to make it even more beautiful. These are all independent learning choices. Awesome self directed learning guys. 

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 ...