Break Through: Face Painting

Our concept learning is about water

Mrs Elliott's writing groups are looking at water.  How would these flowers help us find out how important water is to us? Some of flowers are in water, some are not.

"We were learning about water. We don't drink sea water, it is not good for you," said Micah.
"When you run and and drink water, water makes you cool off," said Jacqueline.
"We drink water because it helps us not get thirsty,"said Emma.
"When it is hot you will get sweaty when the sun is there, you need to drink water and have sun screen," said Sachintha.

Brushing our teeth

We have been talking about brushing our teeth with Ginger over the last two weeks, the children have been very helpful to Gingers friend Honey Bear who needed to go visit the dentist.

They have explained to them how to brush their teeth and made posters.

Ginger and Honey Bear

Fixing up Miss Holland's writing

Today in writing our writing group gave me feedback on my writing.

We broke it into two different parts - one was about how I could fix up the writing that I had already done, and the other part was helping me with ideas on what I could add or do differently.

Here they are sharing their feedback with me about how I could improve my writing...

Then we gave each other feedback.

Here's LH1 giving each other feedback and buddy conferencing each other during writing time...

 

Cross Country Writing

Yesterday we brainstormed our ideas recount about cross country based on the question words that we've learnt.  Today we began writing our stories and had to check back over them to see if we included the information to answer each of the questions...

who, when, what, where why, how?

Here's Dinesan and Jacqueline to share what they've done so far...

On Friday Hub 1 and the other hubs were there at the field for cross country.  We had to run when it was time to go.  We did it on Friday.  We did it because our heart would get pumping for exercise.  I did it by getting steady.  We used some learner qualities.  We were being determined by squeezing our breath to the finish line and also we were self-aware because we kept on aiming to the finish line.  We reflected on how we did it.

By Dinesan

At school we did cross country and the other hubs did it too and when we did it it was so muddy and our teachers were enjoying their time.  Then our t-shirts and skirts got wet.  Then when we got to the hub we changed our clothes and skirt too and it was on Friday.  Who was there was us.  Why did we do it was because it makes us fit and it was fun.

By Jacqueline

Maths Strand - learning about time

We have been learning how to order events, including drawing and writing about our favourite time at school.







Mrs Panapa taught us about the days of the week in Maori and we made them into a chain. The order of school events are up on the window in hub 1.

LH1 are Building their Learning Capacity!

Our learners have been really determined to Build their Learning Capacity around using the computers and iPads in the hub!

We're now at the point where our year 1 learners are independently getting themselves on the blog and posting comments.  This is a tricky thing to do, so we're especially proud.

This is what Jacqueline typed today without any help at all:

"tichrs i love becoze you halping us and you are ciwd so i will giv you asapriz to day and i hope you had a good day from jacqueline"

Jacqueline and LH1, we think you all deserve a surprise too for your amazing determination!

Independent Superstars!

We have an amazing bunch of learners in Hub One!

"I always give my dad a high five out of the school, then I go to the school and go to the classroom and then I put my bag away myself" - Charlie S.

"I put my bag away all myself and my book bag and my drink bottle" - Jacqueline

It's good to be independent because "you will learn doing things on your own because if your parents go away and they help you, you won't know what to do" - Jahvan

"I feel good because I like it when I'm doing things myself" - Margot

"I will do it myself because if my mum does it, my mum will don't be proud of me.  If mummy's be in the car, she will be proud" - Kaichi

"My mummy doesn't help me put my stuff away.  I do it by myself.  I put my bag away and my drink bottle and my book bag" - Emily S.

"I haven't been at school very long but my mummy and daddy don't pack my stuff away.  I do it myself.  They just drop me off and that's why I do it myself every morning" - Aurelia


Here in LH1 we are independent in the mornings.  We do the following things:

• I put my drink bottle away
• I put my book bag away
• I put my school bag away
• I say goodbye to mummy or daddy (or whomever is dropping me off) and then
• I choose some learning or something to play with until the bell goes.

We talked about being self-aware in the mornings and suggested that our more confident learners might even be inclusive and help the younger learners out in the morning if required.

Can you help us to grow the independence of the Learning Hub One students?

Friday Morning Poetry

Each Friday we look at new poems in the hub.  Here's one of our groups practicing one of the poems, in which they focused on punctuation and expression (especially around the question marks).

The Dark Dark Forest Poem

Some of the children in the afternoon ask for this poem every time they come and see me, they love huddling together and pretending to be scared.

Independent Learning during Literacy time

Look at Jacqueline's awesome independent learning from today!

Ariel has been learning English.  Here is a picture that she drew and labelled.  She has been learning the words for her family members, animals and colours!  Go Ariel!  We are all so proud of her learning.

Hub One Herald - the first ever copy!

Extra, extra, read all about it!

Some of the learners in LH1 have become journalists.

We're very proud to be able to bring you the first ever edition of the Hub One Herald.  We put a lot of time and effort into writing our stories and took awesome 'photographs' of our stories.

What do you think?  Would you like to see the next edition of the Hub One Herald?

Click on the newspaper to read it - once it loads, you'll be able to flick through the different articles... click again to zoom in on the ones you'd like to read.

Performing a play (with feedback)

Jacqueline during Break Through time

Today I was playing dressing up because I like it.  I was a princess and I wore a crown and a blue dress and shoes.  My shoes are very tappy.  I like being a princess because they are beautiful.  I was dressed up as a Rapunzel princess.

By Jacqueline