Keeping Ourselves Safe Movies

We have been making movies of "How to keep safe crossing the road and driving."

Enjoy!!!

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'

Working on our Maths Goals.

Lucy and Sophia have been working on basic facts to 10

 Marley, Ella and Sam have beeen playing a game 'Elephamts Expand'.  Learning bonds with 10.

Jazmine has been working on writing her numbers up to 20.

Fabulous Self  Directed Learning Team!

Practising writing

Here are Sophia G and Lucy working very hard to copy text from a picture book accurately on the board.  They worked side by side for a long time copying the words together.  Lucy has added dashes for where all the fingerspaces go.  Well done girls!

Visit from Festival of Colour Storyteller - Tanya Batt

We had a very inspiring visit from Tanya Batt today.  She told us three fabulous stories, then we made a story together and she made it come alive.Thank you Tanya!

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.

The Tube

The tube is a place to be alone while you learn, read or sit and watch. No one can disturb you when you are in the tube. It's basically a net over a chair but works a treat and looks pretty. Good girl Sophia for making good choices for your learning.

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. 

Quiet Room

Celeste and Cholula enjoying quiet time reading together.

Writing Table