Duality maps

The boys have finished their duality maps and here is a short video of them talking about them.  They really enjoyed doing these and asked every day if it was time to do their maps.

Duality Maps

We are making a duality map on Animals or Transport to see the differences between our ethnic country and New Zealand.  We have just made a start and will be working on them over the next couple of weeks.

What I like

I have been doing a learner profile on some of the children, here is some things that they like.  I also did a little one on me as well.

Communication: How to comment on the blog

Today the filming break through group collaborated to make a video to teach you how to comment on the blog.

They first learnt how to comment on the blog, then we filmed each other, decided on the main steps, planned what we wanted to say and then we used the microphone to record ourselves.

If the video has helped teach you how to comment, could you please comment telling us?

Thank you!

Making play dough for practising our list words.

We made some play dough together so that we could use it to practice our list words during literacy time.  It's just another great way to help us learn our words. They enjoyed taking turns and measuring out the ingredients. We had a hard choice what colours to make but in the end they decided amongst themselves.

Time to talk with Ginger

We have been learning how to be good listeners with Ginger this week.
Good listeners:
Look with their eyes
Listen with their ears
Keep Still
And are quiet when it is someone else's turn to talk.
 

Break Through 28th February Animal and Art Groups

We looked and found out how to use pastels to create patterns.

Experimented with different designs.

We went to the library to research patterns.

We drew inspiration from animal patterns and used them to create our own.

Today in concept we were learning how to change the sound of our instruments.

Some of us shook our shakers harder to make the sound louder.

Some of us changed the way we used the instrument which made the sound of it change.

Can you remember how many different sounds you were able to make?

Probability in maths

In maths, we've been learning about probability.  Did you enjoy watching the video Zulfi, Hunter and Josh made?  They were talking about probability words like

certain

more likely

possible

maybe

less likely

impossible

never

What do you think about these questions?

You might even like to practice your probability learning at home:

Year 1, more or less likely
Year 2, more, less and equally likely
Year 2, certain, probable, unlikely and impossible



You might even take 10 items at home (like forks and spoons) and ask mum or dad if it's more likely or less likely to have a spoon... you could even try to trick them by asking what the chances of you having a fork would be!

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.