Plant Report Publishing

This week we broke into 2 groups for publishing.  One group published their work by hand to go up on our writing wall, and the other group published on explain everything, so we could share these examples and help us to reflect on our learning.

This weeks writing has focused lots on how we write reports, as a topic to focus on we looked mainly at plants and herbs.  The children really enjoyed going out each morning to gather herbs from our school garden.  On friday we painted some concrete blocks with the words Kawakawa on to support Team Awa's gardening as a thank you.

We talked about reports needing an introduction, followed by information specific to what it is the report is about, and then a conclusion.  Here are some of our finished publishing examples for you to enjoy and comment on.

Abby

Kaelan

Kaye-Lani

Liam

Nakita

Olivia

Ollie

Parani

Prayz

Riah

Looking forward to seeing your comments.

Learning through Play Week 1 Term 3

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.

Stop motion movies created

Stop Motion Movies - Second Installment

Here is our second installment of stop motion movies.  Can you guess which nursery rhymes these are about? Let us know what you think. 

Mesiah and Nick

Aiden, Legacy and Prayz

Cheyne and Kaelan

Aumaarire, Aston and Brody (Supported by Stella)