Writing Focus

Look at these hard workers back into it at the start of the term. 

Our writing challenge

As part of our writing programme today's challenge was to write a story that was longer than you!  Well done to everyone for working hard and having with writing.  It was great to see the change from the initial "I can't do that!"  to the realisation they could and did.  Fantastic.

Paper Plane Challenge

An off shoot of our bird inquiry has been an interest in flying things.  The boys here made some paper planes and were testing them out to see who's one would fly the greatest distance.  Who won?  What changes could you make to your plane so it could fly even further?

Glockenspiel band

George and Jah took themselves into the sound box to practise on the glockenspiels. Ryan was the beat in the background.  George was learning Twinkle Twinkle Little Star off the chart while beside him Jah was counting to 100.  Great way of using music to support your learning boys.

Recording a weather station

Today Cody and Jah were presenting the weather on T.V.  Excellent work boys.  Maybe you could add some props of maps and weather symbols to improve your presentation.

Learning through music

George, Jah and Ryan were working together using music to learn.  George was following the numbers to play Twinkle Twinkle and then tried to problem solve how to play Jingle Bells.  Alongside him Jah was using the glockenspiel to count to 100 and Ryan was providing the rhythm in the background - this was all at the same time.  The boys had been working in the performance space for quite some time and waited until the sound box was empty so they could work in a quiet space.  Great choices for learning.

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 ...