Maths in hub 5 & 6

WE have been building our knowledge about number!

Tessa what numbers are you drawing? Are you being determined?

Miss P's group are looking at ordering numbers, you are having to do a lot of thinking!

Well done you are building your knowledge about how many 10s are in a number.

Keep going Boston, you can do it!

Tanuki you are learning very well, being independent in your learning

Student voice

Do you remember what you said about communication?

reading provocation -'Max Saves a Frog' and how can we be friendly to frogs.

We have to keep the frogs safe, because they are very special animal. No other animals can be like a frog and they are the most beautiful animal and they are funny frogs. Divesh

We are making a picture for where the frogs need to live. If we don't do this then the frogs won't be able to live here in our school. Emma

We read a book and we want the frogs to be safe with us. We need water shade and soil. We are doing a picture plan and design to help keep the frogs safe at Stonefields school. Alvyn 

We need to try and save our frogs. Frogs are special because they can eat flies and mosquitoes, bugs and they  live under the ground. We are trying to make our ideas to be a pond for frogs in the school. Harrison

We are learning, how to take care of frogs, because we need to put them in a pond. They need water to lay their eggs in. They are special animals because they eat bugs. Eden

Literacy Learning at home

Last week we read a book called Pancakes now look at this exciting home learning carried out by Alvyn.... Yummy ...

Buddy Reading with Hub 9!

Thank you Samo, it was really good to listen to you reading to us.

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Elliott, showing the children the pictures is a great idea!

Using an interactive book was a lovely idea!

Reading in hub 5 and 6. Can you remember what learning helped you?

FInding List words

What word are you looking for Hannah?

Kaelen and Clayton, you are collaborating really well on the i-pad!

You are being very determined, well done Alexi and Alvyn!

Awesome independent learning Harrison and Brodie, Did it get tricky?

Break Through!

The construction and building group were really busy this morning!  Have a look at our creations!

Ayami's mat for her birdhouse.

Harrison made two birds!

David's crab.

Kyan's transformer.

Dinesan's flying racing car.

Kaichi and Oscar made a game.

Devynee and Flynn made a tow truck.

Callum's tower.

Kyle and Alvyn made a deep tower.

Aarav and Daniel made a TV.

Being Safe around Dogs

Today Miss Hinge brought in her dog, Alfie.  We were very pleased to meet him and spent some time listening to her answer out questions, learning about being safe around dogs and patting him.

We made this video for you to learn more about dog safety.

Amazing Learning in Reading!

In reading some of us have been learning to add detail to our re-telling and predicting. Today Krishna and Daniel were predicting superstars!

Alvyn and Aurelia tried using DoodleCast on the iPad for the first time today.  Here's their recording.  What feedback might you give to them?  

"I really liked how you two were collaborating to make the programme" - Bella

"They did a good job.  They collaborated" - Harrison

"I like how they made it more interesting.  At the beginning they didn't do much much talking" - Mina

Didn't they improve as their video went on - it's a bit tricky using it to start with but by the end they were able to draw and tell a story too.  Can you hear them collaborating to make the video?  Ka pai!

Here's Loeki practicing his fluency.  He doesn't sound at all like a robot - just like he's normally talking!  What feedback could you give him?

listen to ‘Loeki's Reading’ on Audioboo

Music and Songs Break Through groups

We had so much fun collaborating, sharing ideas and talking about what we could do for our projects.

We played with the instruments and then decided what we were going to use for our songs. Our voice is an instrument too!



We gave each other feedback so that we have next steps to improve our performances. We had a fantastic day!

Cultural Day in LH1

We've had such a great time today in Learning Hub One - it's been Cultural Day!

Here we are in the morning.  We were really proud of ourselves as every single learner was able to talk on the microphone to say where they come from!

We paraded through the school showing off our cultural dress and recorded what we thought of our clothes...

Would you believe that Kyan (who was dressed as a New Zealand farmer) even arranged for some lambs to come and visit us?!  Here we are with Lily and Simba.  We asked lots of really good questions at the end of their visit.  Thank you Kyan and your Mum for organising this amazing surprise!

We sketched picture of each other in our cultural dress and had to pay close attention to the details.

Then in the afternoon, some of our big buddies from Learning Hub Three came to perform some of their Kapa Haka waiatas and hakas.  We were very lucky to get a private performance!

We had a fun day today celebrating all of our different cultures!!

Learners and parents, please share your comments and thoughts either in this box below or by leaving a comment...

Cultural Day in LH1... at AnswerGarden.ch.

Alvyn and Kaichi build sky tower!

Sky tower is cool. We collaborated to make the tower.  The sky tower was wiggly. The sky tower was high. I love sky towers. - Kaichi
We take a photo of it. We also made it out of wood. It gets wiggly when we build it higher and higher. - Alvyn

Tamaki Kindergarten Visit

A group of hub 1 learners were lucky enough to visit their kindergarten teachers and friends to have lunch together.

We talked to the children about what Stonefields School is all about!

 

The seven learner qualities help us with our learning anytime, anywhere. What are they and what do they mean?



We had a great time at the kindergarten and hope to do it again. A great big thank you to all of the parents and teachers at Tamaki who made this happen.

Bitsboard in Action in reading!

Here are some of our learners trying out Bitsboard today on the iPads.

This is an awesome app!  If you'd like to learn more and download follow these links.

Bitsboard info and List Word Boards...

WALHT: Finger point when reading