Collaboration through discovery learning

Last Monday I took some photo's showing children collaborating together to make a dog house. They showed determination as well as the construction straws kept popping out.  Well done on collaborating together well to make your dog house.

Miss P's Writers

listen to ‘Brooke's Dream School’ on Audioboo

My dream school looks wonderful. It’s made out of clouds! We have ice-skating. There is a gymnastics competition! My school has interesting things like bugs and science and aquariums and butterflies too. I would like a swimming pool. The school has a fair. The fair has lollies. Nearly every day the children have breakthrough. All the children tell the truth when they hurt someone or broken something. By Brooke

listen to ‘Oscar D's Dream School’ on Audioboo

My schools name is Almor Junior High. The school has no rubbish and the school is clean. You can even have dinner there. A wizard would be your teacher. You could have a cake there. I would like to learn about list words. My school would have 9 kids. The wizards name would Wizard Blot. There would be Ipads. By Oscar

listen to ‘Simone's Dream School’ on Audioboo

My school dream I would like a pet shop and pets. My school is fun. I would like girls to have powers but not boys. Girls can do everything but not boys. I wish we can bring loom bands to school. Teachers are cool. I want to be a teacher. By Simone

listen to ‘Olivia's Dream School’ on Audioboo

My dream school is fancy. I would like girls to have powers but not boys. I want the girls to do everything and the boys can do nothing. I would prefer something cooler like this, if the teacher were bubbles! Some children would like this one, if we were vampires. Wouldn’t it be cool if everything was scary. I would like there to be bats. By Olivia

Communication

We designed and made placemats with information on

We were being determined when planing our learning

Simone you worked independently when planning, well done!!

Can you remember what information you needed to put on your placemat?

There was a lot of thinking going on!

Art Breakthrough

Literacy Time!!

We were writing about what we would cook on a bbq, sausages, steak, chops and all with tomato sauce! What would you like to cook on  a bbq?

We were learning about dinosaurs!! We even got to draw and cut one out!!!

The yellow group were building their knowledge around compound words e.g netball, playground. Can you think of any compound words?

Practicing our fine motor skills through art

We cut out a flower shape and stuck it onto some coloured paper, now we are gluing on small bits of paint samples we cut out another session. These are just a few fun ways to strengthen our hand muscles and help us with our pencil grip for writing.

Time to talk with Ginger

We have been learning how to be good listeners with Ginger this week.
Good listeners:
Look with their eyes
Listen with their ears
Keep Still
And are quiet when it is someone else's turn to talk.
 

Break Through 28th February Animal and Art Groups

We looked and found out how to use pastels to create patterns.

Experimented with different designs.

We went to the library to research patterns.

We drew inspiration from animal patterns and used them to create our own.

Welcome to our new children who visited last week

Our big buddies did a great job helping the new visitors learn about how to collaborate at school. Well done!

Hub 1 learning about how to get ready in the morning

Some of our learners thought it might be useful, to make a movie for new learners to Stonefields School, about how to get ready in the morning before school.

Measurement with Mrs Jackson

This morning at the start of our Marvellous Maths Day we talked about our Learner Quality of being Determined.

We did some great thinking about Jack and the Beanstalk. What is taller than and shorter than.

We measured who was taller and shorter than.

Some of us are the same size too.

We measured ourselves.

We made tall beanstalks.

We had to be determined.