Sharing about the Vision Principles

The Vision Principles with the Hippos (by Bella) by sarahholland on GoAnimate

 Charlie S's learner quality video by sarahholland on GoAnimate

Break Through: Movie Making!

What fun things do you like to do when it is wet lunchtime?

"Pretend to make movies" - Hailey

"Draw!" - Kate

"Design  huts" - Charlie S.

"Make a picture" - Bella E.

Our Poem about the Environment

listen to ‘bella and mina’ on Audioboo

LH1's animations!

Mina's Story by sarahholland on GoAnimate

Kaelan's Movie by sarahholland on GoAnimate

Bella P and Charlie H's video by sarahholland on GoAnimate

Kush and Dinesan's Video by sarahholland on GoAnimate

Aarav J and David's Video by sarahholland on GoAnimate

Devynee's Video by sarahholland on GoAnimate

Constable Pete came to LH1!!

Our next steps in Probability!

Today after our probability learning we reflected on what our next steps might be...

"My next step is to choose different colours and not choose all colours for the answer" - Lily R.

"To make them harder because Lily R kept getting them right" - Bella

"About closing my eyes and picking a lollypop stock" - Mikayla

"Learning about what likely and unlikely means" - Dan

"How to use other probability words like 'more likely'" - Jahvan

"To think about what I need to do with the probability words" - Mina

Sharing our writing

Inventors in LH1!

Having read about different ways that scientists 'spy' on animals, we decided we'd like to create our own inventions to keep an eye on animals in the wild...

WALHT: Think Critically about Ideas in our Books

Some of the learners have been reading a book called Spying on Animals and have been learning to think critically about the book - that means that they question to make their own minds up about what they're reading.

Pictures like this got us thinking...

We discussed the question is it fair to spy on animals?  Here's what we thought...

listen to ‘Spying on animals’ on Audioboo

Respectful Learners in LH1

Today during PE some of our learners were the most AMAZING role models.  They showed respect by making eye contact with the person speaking.  They listened carefully for their instructions.  They collaborated with the other members of their team.

How else can you show respect?

"Maybe next time at PE you can be respectful and be on the blog!" - Bella

"Maybe next time at PE the teachers could try and be respectful" - Kyan

Are the teachers respectful?  Yes

"How could the teachers be more respectful then?" - Mrs Freddy

"They could help people if they fall over" - Mina

"I hope we get to be on the blog!!" - Miss Holland

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

Our Marae Video...

Thank you to all of our awesome parent helpers - we had a great time on the bus and at the marae... we couldn't have done it without you!

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!

 

Reading with Expression

In reading today we chose our favourite page that had both bold words and speech marks, to show how we recognise when different characters are talking and what we do when we see bold words.

Here we are reading a page - how do you think we did?

listen to ‘Bella’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Lily D’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Ashlee’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Kush’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Dinesan’ on Audioboo

Strand Maths in Hub 1

"I did repeating patterns and there were one green, two orange, three of another colour…" - Kush

"We made our pattern with coins and money and it was really big. We went gold, silver and brown" - Bella and Eugene

"My colours were red and yellow" - Alexi

"I was doing patterns with the magnets and it was hard. I was determined and I made the pattern" - Henry

"I made colors with purple, pink and other colours and then I went purple and yellow and I could connect them together. I almost made it long!" - Ashlee

"I made a really tall pattern. I had to be determined because it was so tall it kept on falling down. The colours were red, green, green, yellow, blue, blue, and it kept on repeating." - Bella

Science: Melting and Setting

We learnt that heating and cooling both chocolate and fat is a reversible change, because they can go from being normal, to runny and back to hard again over and over and still go back to being like they were when they started.

Here we are showing the changes between liquid and solid...

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).

Cows in the Garden read by Bella, Dinesan, Lily D and Ashlee

We've been busy doing lots of amazing learning here in Hub One!  One of our blue groups have been learning how to read with expression and character voices, and how to know when to use those voices.  They turned this book into a play to practice.

What do you think?

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!