Literacy Week begins!

The first 2 days:

As part of our activities we made big bookmarks using origami - they are really creative and fun!

At our Poetry Festival today Courtney said her poem to the whole Koru Whanau and learnt it off by heart - awesome!

 

Maddie said her poem too and added her own gestures as well. Excellent performance Maddie!

Stefanie read in a beautiful clear voice and used plenty of expression!

All the Year 3 finalist received a certificate for their efforts!

Mandarin meets technology - we love Quizlets!!

Miss Han has been making our Mandarin Learning more interactive and collaborative with Quizlets about the basic language we are learning - colours, body parts etc. Here we are in teams and competing against the clock to see who can match the correct Mandarin words to the images. Miss Han sets the quiz on live so that each team can see how fast they can get their answers in and view the leaderboard at the front screen. There was a quiz for those who can speak Mandarin at home to set them a higher challenge and one for those who are learning the basics.

Kelly Sports Programme - teaching the skills behind how to run! Cam, our coach was a great teacher!

Students reflect on our Turangawaewae Inquiry so far and talk about what they will do with their learning now.

Harry, Daniel and Stefanie talk about their ideas as we look back on our learning this term and how we might use our new ideas next. We realised there are ideas we may not know about our own culture, as well as other people's.

Students who speak other languages...

Marcus, Daisy, Daniel, Sayuni have been practicing their literacy skills and talking and writing about their families. They have created some artistic graphic presentations about their learning!

Using a Talking Strip to improve our communication skills.

Communication or talking skills are important to learn so that you can have a conversation with another person with confidence - here first Daniel, and then Cory, are trying out our Talking Strip. 

In Daniel's book he has made a Quick Talking Strip for talking about his news - it includes an introduction sentence,time, where, who with, what happened, how I felt about it...

Now he is sharing with his talking partner Daisy and she will listen and talk back. This video shows Daniel using his Talking Strip for the first time and he is doing really well with including different parts in his talking.

Here is Cory and he is using his talking strip to check his communication skills. The Talking Strip is a tool to help him if he needs a prompt. He doesn't need to ask Mrs Trembath for help because he has the Strip in front of him. 

Room 14 - learning for life! Turangawaewae - a place to stand - belonging.

In Room 14 we have made a Class Treaty and signed it. We did this after discussing Waitangi Day and what that meant to New Zealand history. 

We decided:

We will try our best to respect others

Share with others

Care for others

Encourage others

We all signed the Treaty. 

At home Whanau might like to discuss some of these words: respect, share, care and encourage and what that might look like in your family.

Our GEMS cover all of these aspects of our Treaty with Growth Empathy Mana Self Belief. This Term R14 are looking at the GEM - Mana in particular,