Monty measured his foot and it was 24 cms long!

How to make a purerehua

These super duper learners have spent 2 afternoons learning how to make a purerehua, which is a Maori musical instrument that sounds like the wind. They have now made a lesson to teach others how to make one. I really like how they each have roles and worked well as a team to teach others. Tu meke learning and teaching.

 

Broken Bones Back in Action

Savanna, Monty and Jazmine are coping remarkably well adjusting to school life with their broken bones

What is angry like?

We have been exploring our feelings as part of our Keeping Ourselves Safe programme.  Here are some examples of describing what angry is like.

Chloe F
When I am angry my head explodes.  My face feels red.  My legs fall to dust.

Arliya
When I am angry I get fire.  It gets fire on my head.  My legs have pimples.

Monty
When I am angry I feel mad.  I feel sad.  I shout!

Jessie
When I feel angry I feel like I am a volcano.  I see a big red splodge on the ground.  I fall to the ground.

Rachael
When I feel angry my head feels funny.  I see my face with smoke.  My brain shakes.

Brain Box

On Friday the brain box made its first entry into Pod 2.  What an amazing morning investigating electrical circuits.  After lots of trial and error it was discovered that some of the batteries were flat.  We needed to make a complete circuit first to find that out.  There were some challenges in learning that this is not an activity that you can undertake on your own with limited equipment.  We are all learning together to work as a team and follow the plans.

WOW! What a day!!!!!

 Smiling faces everywhere from all children, instructors and parents.

It was so nice to see all the families having such a great day together.

All children were well behaved and enjoyed their lessons.

The weather was beautiful and snow was amazing.

Look forward to seeing more action next Thursday.

 Having fun with our instructor.

Monty and Louie proud  of their efforts.

Capital letters

 Cody has been matching lower and upper case letters.

 These children have been writing their friends names with capital letters on the balloons.

Remember to send along healthy fruit snacks for our 'Brain Breaks'

Self directed learners

Look at these fabulous children working hard on their Maths goals independently during Pataitai time.

Challenging Ourselves at Maths Time

Sam and Monty has been practising writing numbers up to 100.

 Isabella has been practising writing her numbers up to 20 on the i-pad.

 These children have been working on their goals before and after numbers up to 20.

 Alex and Joe are so proud of completing the basic facts challenge board. 

Look at the lovely formation of Summer's numbers.  We can see she is proud of her work.

Shape

Pod 2 are learning all about 2D and 3D shapes.  We are learning to sort shapes, describe them and find out how many sides and corners they have.  One way to help us to do this is to make shapes, this can be with clay, rods, straws, geoboards and rubber bands, drawing them etc.  Here are some examples of some of our independent work last week.

 Monty and Myles comparing their triangles on the geoboards.

 Olive and Caitlin drawing shapes in their investigation books.

 Hunter and Jorja making shapes on the geoboards.

 Here is Sebbie's cylinder he created using 2d shapes - great thinking!

Kahlarni and Fletcher with some of the shapes they made using rods, they made a number of hexagons using 6 rods.

Wanaka A and P Show

We had a blast strolling around the A&P Show.  We looked at the art, animals, cakes and rides.  The best part for most children was the bus ride down.

Fun writing in different ways

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

THE JUICE FACTORY

Listen to what the boys have to say about their juice factory - what a fun way to learn all about capacity!

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 ...

Measuring

We have been investigating measurement. The most important things we found out is that when comparing measurements we must start at a baseline. Measuring can be done in different ways with some different materials.We use math language to talk about our measuring like - taller, shorter, longer, smallest, longest. i wonder what you could measure at home and what you could use?

Monty building a tower taller than himself

Measuring using rods, practicing going end to end.