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

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.