Maths - Term 4

We are learning to find fractions of lengths, including seeing when a fraction is greater than one.

He is also learning to skip count forwards and backwards in 2's, 5's and 10's.

Science

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

Swimming

Getting ready for our first swimming lesson!

Getting into the correct position for streamlining!

 Practicing breathing and kicking correctly!

Discovery Time - Term 4

Khan, throughout the year, you have enjoyed a wide range of activities 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.

Maths Strand - Algebra

We are learning to: Identify and describe the rule for 'growing' patterns.

 

Khan can identify the next pattern in a sequence and is now learning to create an equation which  will enable him to calculate any other item in the sequence. 

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.

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.

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 constructing things at Discovery time too.

Maths - Term 3

Khan can solve multi-digit equations by identifying compatible numbers. 

He is now working on using his knowledge of place value to solve 'change unknown' problems e.g 

8 + 6 = (8 + 2) + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14.

Writing - Term 3

 

Khan is learning to underline words that he attempts to spell and then correct them using a word card or dictionary.

 

Khan, 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.

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

Play Based Learning

Khan, it's great to see you practising your basketball skills during Discovery Time.

Art

Alien/robot named Galaxy Boy!

 

Khan, you did a great job at selecting recycled materials and independently constructing two alien/robots!

Science

Khan, 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!

Writing - Term 2

Khan is learning to add detail to his writing and begin editing by underlining spelling words he is unsure of.  

Maths - Term 2

Addition and Subtraction

Khan is learning to add by partitioning numbers.  

 Khan can 'borrow' numbers from one side to make a tidy ten on the other.  

This makes solving the problem easier.

Khan's next step is to apply this to subtraction problems.

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