Global Read Aloud Day

Our fabulous friends in Wellington decided to act out one of their favourite picture books for us.  Aren't we lucky!



You might like to ask Mum or Dad (or whoever would like to help you) to visit their website here and say a great big 'thank you' to them and share what you liked most about their acting.

Isn't that a nice thing for them to do for us!

Welcome to the Collaboration Assembly

Hi parents,

It's Ashikka, Isabelle, Lily and Joe here.  This Friday is the collaboration assembly and we are doing the mirror collaborating with each other.  We have been building our learning capacity by talking and copying each other.

This is us practicing:

We would like it if you could see the whole thing on Friday morning.  If you come, you will also see Shayan in assembly.

By Isabelle, Joe, Lily D. and Ashikka

Ashlee at the Beach!

Today in reading time, Ashlee chose to write a book!

She wrote a fabulous story about her time at a beach in Wellington.  It sounds like she really enjoyed her visit there.

What learning do you like to do in your own time?

Using the writing progressions

 Emily L: We used the progressions to help us know what we can do and we highlighted the ones we can do

Kush: I was doing evidence and highlighting the words that I sounded out

Bella: When you say you can do something to someone you have to show them the evidence that you can do it!

Eugene: I was highlighting the words. It helped me to think about  writing

Ashlee: I was highlighting words in my book so that I know which words I highlighted

We talked about the importance of using evidence in our learning and so we made a video to make sure we could show it to anyone who asks!

We love giving and receiving Feedback!

In Learning Hub One we've been talking about feedback.  Here Miss Holland's writing group discusses feedback.

What is feedback?

Why is it useful?

How do you like to get feedback?

Who gives you feedback?

Oral Language

Every Friday the children all get the opportunity to share with their guardian group either some home learning or celebrate an out of school accomplishment, or bring in a favourite toy or treasure. Last week we were learning how to listen actively and we learned what this looked like. This week we had to remember how to listen actively when our friends shared their news.

Over the next few weeks we are going to learn how to ask questions.

Can you remember what you have to do to be an active listener?

Dictionaries by Maya

Dictionaries help you with reading and writing.  They can also help you to find words that you don't know how to spell and they tell you short stories about the words.  My dictionary has pictures in it and even has three lizards in it, which I was going to show Sid!

Do you have a dictionary?

By Maya