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

Ball skills

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Lesson 1 - absent

Lesson 2

We reflected on what made our passing and catching better this time. The children said...

• I watched the ball carefully
• We stood closer together
• I held my hands ready to catch
• I aimed for my partners hands 
• I didn't pass so quickly - I looked at my partners hands and threw to them

Technology

*Define specifications (features/ properties) for a boat that will float

*Design a boat that floats

*Create a boat and test/observe whether it floats

*Reflect on the results and discuss any changes you would make

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We designed a boat using what we had learned in science about floating and sinking. We looked carefully at the materials we would use, as we wanted the materials to be light and waterproof, so that they wouldn’t soak up water and sink. Some of us also learned through testing, that it was important that our boat was balanced, so that it stayed upright and and didn’t flip over.