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!

Keeping our 'Children' Safe!

Today we started a new concept writing focus.

Some of our learners decorated biscuits to turn them into our children... we then made carry bags and containers for them to go home in.  Over the next few days we're going to be taking our children with us and doing our best to keep them safe.  I wonder what they might get up to!

Feel free to decorate them at home and take photos of what they do after and before school - be sure to keep them safe.

Is it ok to leave your child at home by themselves?

Is it ok to leave them out in the yucky weather?

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!

The Dolphin Rescue

Today in Discovery Time, Maya illustrated a series of pictures based on a story that she, Charlie S., George, Mikayla and Dan shared.  Here they are to explain what they came up with...

Inside our hub at buddy reading time

Each Thursday, our big buddies come downstairs to our hub to read books with us in the afternoon.  We look forward to it each week!

Our favourite things about buddy reading today:

"Reading the words.  We collaborated to read them" - Maya

"I was reading the old book to my buddy" - Clayton

"That he read it out loud" - Aurelia

"I liked buddy reading the books" - Hannah

Here's a photo of how the Butterfly Pod looks during buddy reading...

Click here  :)

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.

Performing a play (with feedback)

A visit from Maya's Dad!

I wonder who noticed a visit from San Francisco this morning?

Maya's Dad left a message for us all from America!  Do you have family either living overseas or visiting a different country?

Let's keep an eye out to see if we can spot their dots too!

Maya's Gold Star Learning Challenge from home!

Maya's Mum and Dad set her a maths learning challenge.  They asked if she could work out the answer to

14 + 1 - 3

She was really determined and reflected on her learning and her answers and got it right - Go Maya!!

Here's Maya with her thinking:

Dictionaries by Maya

Dictionaries help you with reading and writing.  They can also help you to find words that you don't know how to spell and they tell you short stories about the words.  My dictionary has pictures in it and even has three lizards in it, which I was going to show Sid!

Do you have a dictionary?

By Maya