As part of our learning about our local area we all wrote stories (including Mrs G). We also published them by creating a story map and then using Explain Everything to share and record our versions. Our writing was amazing as we had so much to write about and it was a great experience for us all. We hope you enjoy our work.
Children were super excited about this writing topic and many of them found lots of interesting facts about the life cycle of the butterfly. Great work ALL of Team Maunga and Iti. Here are a couple of examples of Explain Everythings that were created to publish children's writing this week.
This week we were very excited about our publishing. We had written stories about events on a farm and then we created a stop motion to show this. We then recorded over the top our stories and this was our publishing. We had so much fun. It was hard work but we really enjoyed this experience.
Currently, we are doing a fantastic school kit called 'the farming kit' So lots of our learning at the moment is all about farming and what it is like, the animals, who work on farms and why they are important.
This week we had lots of fun working together to create small movies using the blocks, farm animals, and vehicles that Mrs G brought in.
Some things we have been learning about when making Stop Motion movies
You need to set your scene up, where it's not in the way (otherwise it gets broken by accident)
You have to take LOTS of pictures
Each picture is only slightly different from the last picture (MOVE IT JUST A LITTLE BIT).
Your iPad needs to be set up so it doesn't fall over or get moved.
Here are some examples of what we have been doing to practice these skills.
On Friday we shared our learning at our assembly.
Here are are our movies that show our space writing that we put onto green screen. Nui wrote about a starry night, Iti were using adjectives to describe the sun. Come into our class and have a look at all our published stories on our writing frames.
In the afternoons Maunga Iti have been working with Team Maunga exploring rocket launches into space. Hannah worked with Harley Barlow, Susanna worked with Kaelan, Tyler worked with Rakai, and Andrew worked with Ivy and Daniel S, to create a Stop Motion of a rocket launch. First they had to create their rockets in the LEGO room. Then we learnt how to take lots of pictures moving our rocket slowly each step. When we played our movie it made our rockets look like they were launching into space all by themselves. This week we are learning about gravity. The children choose the activity they want to do over the week to learn and explore more about our theme.
Wow lots of Reading Certificates for the month of September. The first 3 certificates (in green) are 120 nights reading. This is outstanding. Well done everyone! Keep up the fantastic reading.
In class this week we have moved on from hungry nines and super hungry 8's to revisiting place value. We are now learning to use this to add problems with larger numbers. Below are some rewindable learning moments we wanted to share so we could all look back at them and remember how to solve these sorts of problems, and also how to talk about solving these sorts of problems.
Not only is this a great way to remember for ourselves, It will also help us develop the ability to explain this to others for our student led workshops that we run on Fridays.
This week we have had a group of children gain their first home reading certificates of the year! Well done to you all and keep up that home reading. Here are a few photos of them with their proud looks on their faces. We are are so proud of their efforts and are very impressed at how they are progressing.
You can see from the photo on the right photo a map of NZ. This is a way of the children knowing what reading level they are on and where they need to be by the end of 1 year and the end of 2 years at school. The children love being able to move their plane to a new location as they move through their reading levels. Check it out next time you are in our class, and ask your child about where they are. Also don't forget to ask them what their reading goals are as they are reading to you.
