Maths -Term 4

Daniel, you are able to accurately solve addition problems with large numbers by counting on from the biggest number (held in your head) in increments of 1 (tracked on your fingers). Your next learning step is to accurately solve subtraction problems with large numbers by counting back from the biggest number (held in your head) in increments of 1 (tracked on your fingers).

Science

Specific Learning Outcomes:

The life cycle of a plant: (Life Processes)

• Identify the different parts and functions of a plant
• Understand that a plant needs a certain environment to grow

Growing seeds and plants: (Life Processes)

• Grow own plant from a seed (e.g. sunflower, pumpkin, bean, pea)

Play based learning

We read the book Clever Mr Brown.  Mr Brown made his own airplane and had to be creative for it to fly.  We created our own planes and tested them.

Dance / Drama

Maui catches the sun

 

We participated in our syndicate production called "Maui catches the sun." 

We helped to chose some dance actions to go with the lyrics in the song "Slow down sun." We danced and acted and we were very brave when we performed in front of an audience. 

We were learning to:

• Use our knowledge of daily activities/chores to create movements
• Create and perform a movement phrase using locomotor and non-locomotor moves
• Discuss how facial expression, movement, and gesture can be used to create meaning   

This is Room 7 practicing our dance ...

This is us ready to perform in our costumes ...

Swimming

Music

Music

This term we have been having fun playing on lots of different instruments in the music room. We have learnt how to identify the beat and play along with the music in time using the percussion instruments. We have also been learning how to play some chords on the ukulele. We have practiced singing songs and playing the ukulele at the same time and we persevered even when we found it a bit tricky to begin with. The students are working at the curriculum expectation for music.

Maths - Patterns

Learning Goal: to identify, make and continue patterns.

Daniel, your next step is to identify patterns in number sequences.

Te Reo Māori

We are learning to count in Māori and ask and answer a sentence about how many objects/people there are. 

This is us playing hopscotch and saying the numbers in Māori as we hop.



We took turns saying 2 digit numbers in Māori and making them.

Visual Art - Term 3

We looked at koru and kowhaiwhai patterns in picture books and practiced drawing them.

Then we visited the art gallery and learned more about Māori motifs.  

We created an artwork there by cutting out the shapes we saw and overlapping them.

We were inspired by the work of Reuben Paterson and created our own glitter art.

Social Science

We wrote about who is in our family, what we do together, what we like to eat, celebrations and jobs.

We created a poster and learned about the similarities and differences of families in our class.  

Discovery Time - Term 3

Daniel enjoys role playing, especially with his friends.

Maths Strategy - Term 3

Daniel is able to use known hand patterns to solve addition and subtraction problems that have 10 as one of the numbers. 

 Daniel's next learning step is to solve addition problems by holding the biggest number in his head and counting on in increments of one. 
 

Strand Maths - Time

WALT: Measure time in a variety of contexts e.g, Days of the Week, Age, Fast / Slow

WALT: Tell the time to the hour and half hour using analogue clocks.

Play Based Learning

I love watching your creative play Daniel.  And what a fantastic groundskeeper you are!

Science

Daniel, you participated fully in all aspects of our Astronomy unit.  I hope you enjoyed learning about the Sun and its affect on the earth, people and animals and had fun at our Matariki celebration.

Art

Maths - strategy

I am able to solve addition and subtraction problems that have 5 as one of the numbers and the result unknown, by using the “5 and“ hand patterns that I have learnt.

My next learning step is to consistently solve addition and subtraction problems that have 5 as one of the numbers and have the change unknown e.g. 5 + ? = 9