'Being a good friend' with Harold

What did you do today with Harold and Ben?

What did you learn about?

During discover time today some of our learners decided to put on a puppet show for you all:

"Welcome to the show of friends.  Today we did a movie about friends" - Krishna and Oscar F

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

Reading: Re-telling in our own words

"We have been learning how to do some recordings on Miss Holland's phone.  We were re-telling.  It was hard because we wanted to read the stories sometimes but we had to re-tell and I was being determined and my partner too." - Ayamai

What do you think of our re-telling?

listen to ‘Ayamilily’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Loekikyle’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Daniel and Krishna’ on Audioboo

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!

Measurement with Mrs Freddy

Today we learnt about estimating and measuring with hand spans.  

First we read a book teaching us what measuring was all about.  Then, we learnt the meaning of some fancy words like: estimate (guess), measure, longer, shorter, wider, narrower.  After that, we had great fun measuring with our hands.

Devynee estimated the side of the table would be 6 hand spans.  When she measured it came out to 4 hand spans - a pretty close estimate!

Krishna estimated that the width of the computer would be 3 hand spans.  It turned out to be 5 hand spans!  Another close estimate!  Awesome!

Ariel estimated that the width of the computer would be 4 hand spans.  It was actually 3 hand spans when she measured.  Wow, what a super estimate!

We found that everyone had a different hand span, therefore we all had different results.