Yesterday Tanya came in and worked with Maunga Nui and Iti on Scratch Jr and Bee Bots coding. We had to draw our grandparents and programme their drawing to do something they love.
Mesiah created a Scratch Jr of his family dancing. He is with his nan and sister Manea. Next time Mesiah wants to add music to his animation.
Today we were working with our learning buddies to create collaborative stories about the easter bunny. Have a look at how cute the kids were at reading their stories.
Here is a small video of things our little play based learning group have been up to this week. It shows examples of how their playing has lead into guided learning and when pairing these together this is creating a powerful learning environment and motivation for both writing and further learning.
The purpose of this group is to increase their oral language so that their oral language can assist their learning across the curriculum through these oral experiences. This then has a spin off effect on their focused learning times as these experiences act as a springboard for further learning.
We can't wait to see what this small group of children achieve next.
This term we have been working hard on our Stop Motion Movies. We have created mini movies relating to nursery rhymes. Here are the first of our Stop Motion Movies see if you can guess what nursery rhyme they are about.
