Break Through: Face Painting

Ashikka looking after her gingerbread child at home

Writing about our 'children'

Most of us remembered to bring our gingerbread children back to school today... Ashikka and Zoe even spent time last night decorating their carry cases and Flynn gave his person a healthy dinner of broccoli!

Tonight we're all going home with them and will be thinking about what we can do to help keep them safe and healthy.  Try to get some pictures of you looking after your 'children' if you can, LH1!

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

Using the Glossary and Contents page

We've been learning how (and where) to look for definitions in the non-fictin texts that we read.  We've learnt that the glossary is often in the back of non-fiction books and helps us understand the meanings of challenging words.

Today we were set the challenge of reading the book using the contents page - we flicked backwards and forwards to the contents page and read the pages that interested us the most first.  We also used the glossary to help us understand difficult words.

We're non-fiction superstars!

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...

 

WALHT: Find key words to summarise

"Today we learnt how to find keywords and then how to summarise.  Key words are something important.  You only put in big words.  We used our key words to re-tell the story."

Time to reflect:

"We think we did good because we only used big words and they were all important ones.  It was sort of tricky because we couldn't really find them easily.  We had to be determined and we collaborated.  We think that helped a lot"

By Ashikka and Isabelle

Giving Zoe feedback on her independent learning

"I love when she said her sister likes the juice as well because I didn't know that her little sister loved that" - Ayami

"I like how you said that" - Kyle

"I like how she made that eating video" - Britta

"You could use your voice a little bit louder" - Ashikka

"You could talk about more foods" - Daniel

Maybe some more healthy foods?

Home Learning - Writing by Ashikka

Stonefield School Cross Country Race

The country race was fun because we got to go arond  the school in the rain . We were running on the mud and it was slipre. Lucky  us we didn't fall. But our dress and shoes were all mud.

This is where you go up the hill  arond  school  then  go back to the finis line then we got to go home or stay at school.

                                                                                                     

 

Finish          Start                                                                                                                                             

By Ashikka                                        

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!

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.

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.

Recording a Story using Story Builder on the iPad

listen to ‘Cat and dog story’ on Audioboo

Teaching Each Other

This term we're trialling something new in the hub. 

 Whilst some learners are listening and learning with big books in the afternoons, other learners are reading independently - this is something our big buddies in Hub 3 do, so is very exciting!

Whilst that's happening, we'll be rotating the independent readers through some techy lessons. So far one reading group has had a reminder from Miss Holland about how to comment on the blog (it's hard to remember things like that after a holiday break sometimes!), and today these learners became teachers, showing another group how to comment on the blog. 

 Here they are!

 

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.

Re-telling with 'Show Me'

Running at fitness time

 Hello Parents, We are learning to be determined and run at fitness time. We need to practice over the holidays and weekends too, so we can get ready for cross country next term.

We remember to wear sensible school shoes so we can run fast.

Home Learning with Playdough

"These are my playdough rhyming words.  I made the playdough in cooking (at home) and then I made two animals and lots of words.  They are all robot words"  By Ashikka

If you'd like to make playdough at home, check out the learning that the ALL group did with Miss Hinge here!

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).

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.