Maths - Term 4

Shalom, you are able 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). Your next learning step is to accurately solve subtraction problems with large numbers by counting back from the biggest number (held in your head) in increments of 1 (tracked on your fingers).

Science

It was exciting watching my very own bean seed sprout and then watching it grow!

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 blowing more bubbles!

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.

Visual Art

Absent for koru practice artwork

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.

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Māori

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

Shalom was able to write the sentence to answer how many animals there were in each picture. 

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.

Reading - Term 3

Shalom is working hard at checking that what she reads looks right, sounds right and makes sense.

Shaloms's next learning step is to be able to retell the story that he has read with a beginning, middle and end.

Maths Strategy - Term 3

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

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

Writing - Term 3

Shalom is learning to use joining words in her sentences so that she adds more information for the reader.

 Shalom, I enjoyed hearing you read the story that you wrote about celebrating Christmas with your family.

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.

Shalom, your next learning step is to correctly position the numbers 1 to 12 on a clock face.

Play Based Learning

Shalom, it's great to see you being creative and threading beads during Discovery Time.

Science

Shalom, 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

Lesson 1

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

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.

Maths - Position and Orientation

We are learning to:

• describe where objects are using the language of position
• give and follow instructions using the language of position and direction
• show a quarter turn and a half turn in a number of situations 
  
  
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