Wednesday 28 October 2015

Hui - Identifying Kai

Learning Intention:
I am learning to understand and use some familiar food vocabulary

Success Criteria:

I will be successful when I can identify kai pictures and say the words correctly.


Friday 9 October 2015

Oral Language and Draft Writing

The Learning Process
  • First, the children listened to the teacher describe a creature and they drew what they heard.
  • Then they wrote about their creature, using descriptive words.
  • Next, they shared their writing with a talking partner to "Give one -Take one"  - share words that they could add to their own descriptions.
  • Finally, they worked on their writing again to make it better.
Learning Intention

I am learning to:
  • Use words to build a picture in my own mind
  • Use descriptive words in my writing
  • Use talking and sharing my ideas as a way to make my own writing better.
Success Criteria
  • The words I use will put a detailed picture into the mind of the person reading my writing - my audience.
 Draft Writing
This is a monster. He has pointy ears and 4 feet and 3 arms. He has googley eyes and next I drawed a tail and he lives in a jungle.

Geometry - 2D Shapes

Learning Intention
We are learning to sort shapes by their characteristics

Success Criteria
We will know we are successful when we:
  • use  words like - shape, line, straight, curved, corners, edges, sides
  • think about different ways to sort the shapes
  • talk about how and why we sorted the shapes



Easy Blog Photo

Te Reo with Matua Rihare

We are learning to:
  • sing waiata
We will be successful when we

  • participate with respect and enthusiasm
  • use correct pronunciation

Music with Mr McCallum

We are learning about Pitch
  • High and low sounds
  • Creating a pitch map
  • Making ascending and descending melodic patterns


We are learning about beat and rhythmic patterns.

Katie wrote
At Music with Mr McCallum we sing He Honare and we sing some other songs. We do high and low notes and we sing the Dinosaur Stomp.