Our Ukulele Band

This is our outstanding ukulele group who work with Gilly our specialist music teacher every week.

 

Finley's weekend

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Boom went the fire works. They were loud! After the fire work I went home. I was happy.

Finley's 3D Art

Finley has made an amazing 3D setting of the 'Three Little Pigs'.

Well done Finley, You are so creative.

You have also inspired others to make a play, build houses and retell the story.

Thank you !!!

Games

Playing games helps us to learn so many skills. Social interactions, turn taking, follow rules, communicating, sharing, and in this game logic and patterns. Eli and Finley are demonstrating this beautifully at the Game Station.

Tennis Skills

These super learners got together to play tennis. Awesome skills working together, while developing some very clever ball hitting skills. Tu meke learning.

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.

Fun writing in different ways

We are having so much fun learning to write in lots of different ways.

Construction

Finley worked hard to construct his own 'little men city'. He is happy and excited to explain how each piece works and what each component can do. What an amazing construction Finley. Great learning.

Learning a new word

Kahlarni - writing on the mini whiteboard

Talking into the phone to hear the word.

During our Knowledge Building Community discussions we have been investigating how we learn. We found out that we all learn in different ways doing different things. These are a few photos to demonstrate how we found the best way to learn a new word.

Taja - Making the word 'thank' with playdough

Sebbie - making 'there' using lego

Ryan - making 'A' using blocks

Finley - making 'she' on mini whiteboard

Abby - making 'too' with playdough

Kiana - Making a poster of 'saw' using different colours

Sam - making 'see' with playdough