Maths - Term 4

Braxton, you are able to add groups of ten to 2 digit numbers by drawing models. Your next learning step is to add groups of ten to 2 digit numbers by only using number knowledge.

Swimming

Warming up by getting our heads under the water and blowing bubbles!

 Getting into the correct streamlining position!

 

Practicing streamlining!

Discovey Time - Term 4

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

You were amazing in the role as Maui! I was very impressed with how well you learnt your lines and your acting skills.  

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 being creative in many different ways Braxton.

Maths Strategy - Term 3

Braxton is able to add 2 digit numbers by using place value and known facts to add the groups of tens and groups of ones. 

 Braxton's next learning step is to use number properties rather than drawing the tens and ones.

Writing - Term 3

Braxton is learning to spell words by looking for them on word cards and on resources around the room. He is also attempting to spell other words by stretching them out and recording the sounds he can hear. 

Braxton, I enjoyed hearing you read the story you wrote about trying to beat Mum and Dad at soccer.

Reading - Term 3

Braxton is reading at Purple level 19

He is learning to retell a story in sequence and to include important details. His next learning step is to retell a story without teacher prompting.

 

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.

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

Play Based Learning

Braxton, it's great to see you constructing and also practising your basketball skills during Discovery Time.

Art

                   No photo of alien/robot - alien/robot not completed

Science

                                    
                                 No photo of lantern - Lantern not made

Braxton, you participated well in the learning about the sun and how it affects everything, including animals and also causes night and day.

Maths - strategy

I am able to solve addition problems by holding the biggest number in my head and then counting on, using my fingers to keep track.

My next learning step is to consistently solve subtraction problems by holding the biggest number in my head and then counting back, using my fingers to keep track.

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

We sat with a buddy, back- to-back and took turns at 
giving instructions about the position to put different 
coloured blocks in. 

We then looked at each others blocks to see if we had 
followed or given the positional instructions correctly 
and our block patterns looked the same.

We are learning to:

• show a quarter turn and a half turn in a number of situations 
  

Te Reo Māori

     

We are learning to introduce ourselves and communicate about ourselves, our whānau, our school and where we live through reciting our pepeha.

Science - Floating and Sinking

 
Braxton chose an object from the classroom.

He then

• asked the question; will it sink or will it float?
• made a hypothesis stating what he thought would happen
• tested his hypothesis by placing his object in the water
• observed what happened and reflected on his hypothesis
  
  

  

Mathematics - Term 1

 

Braxton you are able to say numbers before and after to 20.

Writing - Term 1

 

Braxton you are working hard at adding more detail to your sentences.

Reading - Term 1

 

Braxton is learning to retell a story that he has read in sequence.

Values and beliefs

 












We shared with our buddy the things that we like and they shared what they like. We found we had some things in common and some differences. This discussion helped us to learn how to "connect" with others in our school.