Break Through: Face Painting

Hub 1 learning about how to get ready in the morning

Some of our learners thought it might be useful, to make a movie for new learners to Stonefields School, about how to get ready in the morning before school.

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

WALHT: Ask Questions about our Stories

Today in writing one of our groups focused on asking questions about the book.

 Here's Daniel to read the story, Chug the Tractor to you:

listen to ‘Daniel and Chug’ on Audioboo

Can you answer the questions they came up with?

listen to ‘Blue questions’ on Audioboo

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: Ask Questions about Books

"Ayami, Krisha, Loeki, Daniel and Miss Holland, we were reading the book about Eggs and Dandelions.  We liked the book.  We learnt how to ask questions about the book in Stonefields School" - Krisha, Daniel and Loeki

"How comes there's half of my name in the title? [Dandelions]" - Daniel

 

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

Netball today

Today we have some special visitors come in to teach us all netball.  We learnt some new skills and practiced them.  Here are some learners sharing their thoughts.  Click the play button and please be patient, the photos will turn over (they're just a little slow) for you to hear everyone's ideas.

What we did in reading today...

Today in reading we learnt lots of amazing things! One group focused on conjunctions and learnt how to join two words together with an apostrophe... 

Another group learnt about compound words like wheelchair and airplane.  Do you know what a compound word is?

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.

Finding 5 and the missing numbers!

We are making sums with 5!

 We are finding and discussing how we found 5.

 What would be the answer if I add 2 to 5?

What would happen if I add 4 to 5?

As a hub we were trying to find the missing numbers!
Are we counting forwards or backwards?

Alex reads to Loeki

Today we were lucky enough to have our big buddies come in - here's Alex sharing a collection of pirate poems with Loeki!