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.