Maths - Term 4

Celeste, you are able to accurately solve addition problems with large numbers by using a hundreds board to support you counting on from the biggest number in increments of 1. Your next learning step is to accurately solve addition problems with large numbers by counting on from the biggest number (held in your head) in increments of 1 (tracked on your fingers). 

Science

It was exciting watching my very own bean seed sprout and then watching it grow!

Swimming

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

 Getting into the correct streamlining position!

 

Practicing streamlining!

Dicovery Time - Term 4

Celeste, throughout the year role play has been a favourite activity for you at 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.

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.

Maōri

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 really enjoy creative play Celeste.

Maths Strategy - Term 3

Celeste is able to use known hand patterns to solve addition and subtraction problems that have 10 as one of the numbers.

Celeste's next learning step is to solve addition problems by holding the biggest number in her head and counting on in increments of one.
 

Reading - Term 3

Celeste is reading at Purple level 19

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

Writing - Term 3

Celeste is learning to add detail to her stories by using joining words to make compound sentences.

Celeste, I enjoyed hearing you read your story about the bonfire and eating 
squishy marshmallows - yum!

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.

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

Play Based Learning

Celeste, it's great to see you enjoying being creative and drawing during Discovery Time.

Science

Celeste, 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!

Art

Celeste, you did a great job at selecting recycled materials and independently constructing your alien/robot named Blue.

Maths - strategy

I am able to solve addition and subtraction problems that have 5 as one of the numbers and the result unknown, by using the “5 and“ hand patterns that I have learnt. 

My next learning step is to consistently solve addition and subtraction problems that have 5 as one of the numbers and have the change unknown e.g. 5 + ? = 9

Ball skills

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Lesson 1

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Lesson2

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

 
The children chose an object from the classroom.

then

• asked the question; will it sink or will it float?
• made a hypothesis stating what they thought would happen
• tested their hypothesis by placing their object in the water
• observed what happened and reflected on their hypothesis
  
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Reading - Term 1

 

Celeste is able to read a growing number of commonly used words and enjoys discussing the story that she is reading.

Writing - Term 1

 

Celeste is able to write many commonly used words correctly and is working hard to include "wow" words in her writing.

Mathematics - Term 1

 

Celeste is able to say the number after and 

before a number in the range 1 - 20.

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.