Maths - Term 4

Paigan, you are able to accurately solve addition problems with large numbers by using a hundreds board to support you counting on from the biggest number in increments of 1. Your next learning step is to accurately solve addition problems with large numbers by counting on from the biggest number (held in your head) in increments of 1 (tracked on your fingers).

Swimming

Getting ready to start our lesson!

Warming up by putting our faces in the water!

Getting our heads under the water and blowing bubbles!  

Kicking with a flutter board and trying really hard to blow bubbles! 

Discovery Time

Paigan, playing dress ups and "Mums and babies" has been a favourite activity for you at Discovery Time.

Dance/Drama

Maui catches the sun

 

We participated in our syndicate production called "Maui catches the sun." 

We helped to chose some dance actions to go with the lyrics in the song "Slow down sun." We danced and acted and we were very brave when we performed in front of an audience. 

We were learning to:

• Use our knowledge of daily activities/chores to create movements
• Create and perform a movement phrase using locomotor and non-locomotor moves 
• Work cooperatively with another child when creating and performing a dance sequence 
• Discuss how facial expression, movement, and gesture can be used to create meaning   

This is us practicing our dance 

  

This is us in our costumes getting ready to perform for an audience.

Reading

Reading

Paigan, when faced with an unknown word you have been learning to think what would make sense, sound right and look right.

Your next step is to retell the story including the beginning, middle and end.

Visual Art

We looked at Koru patterns in picture books and in kowhaiwhai patterns. We then practiced drawing korus ourselves.

We visited the art gallery and learnt about a variety of Māori symbols and then we created an artwork by overlapping cut out symbols with straight, jagged and curved lines.

This is my artwork based on the artwork created by Reuben Paterson.

Music

This term, we have been having fun playing on lots of different instruments in the music room. 

We have been learning: 

• How to identify the beat and play along with the music in time, using the percussion instruments. 
• How to play some chords on the ukulele. 
• How to sing songs and play the ukulele at the same time.
• How to persevere even when we found it a bit tricky to begin with.

 

Māori

We are learning to count in Māori and ask and answer a sentence about how many objects/people there are. 

 This is us playing hopscotch and saying the numbers in Māori as we hop.

Social Science

We wrote about who is in our family, what we like to do with our family, what our family likes to eat, a family celebration and family jobs and chores. We created a poster with our writing and then we drew a picture of our family.We learnt about ourselves and we are really proud of the quality poster we created.

Discovery Time - Term 3

You enjoy dressing up and imaginative play at Discovery time.

Maths Strategy - Term 3

Paigan is able to use known hand patterns to solve addition and subtraction problems that have 10 as one of the numbers.

Paigan's next learning step is to solve addition problems by holding the biggest number in her head and counting on in increments of one. 
 

Reading - Term 3

Paigan is reading at Blue level 11

Paigan is learning to check that what she says when she reads looks right, sounds right and makes sense. She is also learning to talk about the stories that she reads.

Writing - Term 3

Paigan is learning to add detail to her stories by including who, where, when etc. She is also working hard at stretching words that she is unsure how to spell and recording the sounds that she can hear.

Paigan, I enjoyed hearing you read your story about spoiling mum by making her pancakes.

Play Based Learning

Paigan, it is great to see you being creative a Discovery Time.

Maths - Time

We have been learning to:

• sequence events within a day

• order the days of the week
• order the months in a year
• describe a duration as long or short ­
• ­name and ­directly compare the duration of two events
• ­­tell the time to the hour and half hour using analogue clocks

Before we talked about clock features, we all drew clocks using our prior knowledge.

No picture of a clock - absent for sample

Science

 

Paigan, you participated well in all the learning about the sun and how it affects everything, including animals and also causes night and day. It will be exciting to see the lanterns with the little lights in them at the Matariki lantern parade!

Art

        No photo of alien/robot - alien/robot not completed

Maths - Strategy

I am able to solve addition and subtraction problems that have 5 as one of the numbers and the result unknown, by using the “5 and“ hand patterns that I have learnt.

My next learning step is to consistently solve addition and subtraction problems that have 5 as one of the numbers and have the change unknown e.g. 5 + ? = 9