Break through: We would like to find out about....

Boston, you are finding out about birds. What bird have you made, it its small, lives in a tree and is colourful?

Kush you have made an amazing pyramid. You had to be determined when creating it, well done!!

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

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

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...

How can we help at home? Washing up the cups in writing this week......

We built our knowledge......

by bringing what we already know about washing up.

We predicted how we might wash up ......

We collaborated and drew our picture plan to record our thinking ....

We shared our ideas back to the writing group.

We got our equipment.

We made lots of bubbles.

We practiced....

and practiced....

and practiced...

washing up....

......

scrubbing......

and cleaning....

drying ....

and putting away the clean cups.

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

Comparing settings in reading

The Turquoise reading group has been doing lot of collaborating today!  They've been making meaning of their settings, by comparing the settings from the two different books they've been reading.  They needed to first share the setting in their own book and then try to find the similarities and differences between them.

They were certainly in the pit at times but thanks to their determination and awesome thinking, they got out!

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

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).

The Dark Dark Forest Poem

Some of the children in the afternoon ask for this poem every time they come and see me, they love huddling together and pretending to be scared.

Kush reads to the Hub

Today I read Gabby & Grandma Go Green to the children and I felt good.  I felt good because I was the teacher.  I have been practicing reading this book so I will be able to be good at reading it.

It is a book about green projects and I am learning what that means.

Break Through Round-up!

Dance Group:

Art Group:

Here's Charlie S. to share his art work and thinking with you...

Performing a play (with feedback)

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!