Showing posts with label Ethan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethan. Show all posts

Monday, 23 September 2013

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. 

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Our Special Lamb Visit



Jazmine brought her very special pet lamb to school today. We were so excited we wrote some beautiful stories about her visit.


Today a curly lamb came to school. His two front legs were bent slightly and he limped. Lola

A lamb came into school. It was soft. I thought that when you feed it you didn't put your hand under its head. It is funny. Ethan

I could see a lamb and I didn't know that I could walk. But it use to not walk. It got injections in the bottom and now it can walk. Lucy

The lamb came into the classroom. The lamb walked into the classroom and had a drink and did a wee. Pisss! Louie

Monday, 8 April 2013

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.

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

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.




Monday, 11 March 2013

Architects in Action

We have some budding architects and builders in Pod 2.  As an extension to their construction work they decided to draw plans and work as a team to build their constructions.  Amazing thinking and teamwork - wow!



Saturday, 9 March 2013

Yahoo!

Congratulations to these hard workers for achieving recognition with a certificate this week. 

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Construction

These amazing learners have been experimental with their designs using lego and straws to make unique and creative machines. Some fly, some roll, some are wide and some are huge. They can all explain in great detail their learning and how each part works. They are now sharing ideas to extend each others thinking and challenge their designs even further. During sharing time we can compare their finished products to talk about basic elements of form and function. 




Chloe F


Amelia

Water Play

A station we can choose at Pataitai Station is water play. This beautiful looking liquid is used to measure different size containers to compare. We also develop pouring, self management, and co-operative skills. It has proven in the past to be extremely powerful in developing an understanding in liquids and volume. Lots of language is developed at this station.