Showing posts with label Authentic Learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Authentic Learning. Show all posts

Friday, February 23, 2024

February 23rd

Te Kakano learners have been enjoying learning to read and write more letter-sounds. They have started blending their known letter-sounds and can read and write. Super-duper little learners!

Meet Cooper the caterpillar and Ally Alligator.

 


We made apple spirals to help us remember the letter sounds for 'a' and 's'. It was fun!














Scrumptious apple spirals!

 Learning about being a team.

We had a lot of discussions about being part of a team. Here are some of ideas:

Being a good team member means working well with others to get things done together. Here’s how you can be a good team member:

  1. Share: Share your toys, ideas, and turn. When everyone shares, everyone has fun!
  2. Listen: When your friends are talking, listen carefully. It helps you understand what they want to do.
  3. Help Out: If someone needs help, like tying their shoes or finding something, you can offer to help them.
  4. Take Turns: Everyone should get a chance to play or talk. Waiting for your turn is important.
  5. Be Kind: Use kind words and be gentle with your friends. This makes everyone feel happy and safe.
  6. Say “Thank You”: When someone helps you or shares with you, saying "thank you" shows you appreciate them.

When you do these things, your team can have fun and get lots of things done together!

Our class waka. We talked about how a waka team has to work together otherwise they won't reach their destination and accidents might happen.


This is how we created ourselves to sit in the waka. We sat and pretended we were paddling. Mrs Dane took a photo and used a special app to change the photo. We added colour very carefully and love how we look. We are a great team!












 

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

How to make a no-dig garden

 This term we have been learning about growing plants from seeds, the parts of a plant, and, what plants need and do for the environment. We have worked together to create a garden to plant our sunflower seedlings in and a 'Butterfly Garden' where we will plant the swan plants we are growing. 

We joined hands and measured the space our garden would be.
Our garden will be a curved shape. It is 16 strides long.



Next we spread out the cardboard onto the ground.

We had to stand on the cardboard so it wouldn't blow away.








We worked in pairs tipping soil out of buckets, spreading soil and returning the buckets for Mr Mullholland and our helpers from 
Te Puawai to fill up again. 










Our gardens still need some more soil but that's our job for next week!

We went back to the classroom, washed our hands and got rewarded for our great mahi and . . . so did the lovely tuakana Levi, Miley, Kingston and Mason from Te Puawai.
We couldn't have made our gardens without their help.
They displayed all of our school values -Hiranga/Excellence, 
Rereketanga/Diversity, Ngakau/Integrity, Porihanga/Community and
Partnership and Kaitiakitanga with big smiles and their willingness to
help out! 



 

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Learning with 'Science in a Van.'

 Bubble Fun!

We learnt some new scientific words as well as having so much fun.

You need a bubble mixture to make bubbles.




We enjoyed learning about mixtures.

This mixture separated.

Will it separate?
Will there be a reaction?
Reaction!



A very special bubble mixture!



We are looking in wonder at the highest part of the ceiling
where a bubble got stuck!