Sophie's Photo on Monday, 24 November 2014

When I started in Room 18 I was reading level 5 books like "Little Terriers" now I can read level 16 books like "Pop pop pop"

I am very happy with how much better I am now at reading! I had to show my CARE values a lot and work really hard. Next year I am going to get even better!

A&P Show Writing

After we went to the A&P Show we wrote thank you letters to the parents who took us.

In writing I am learning to... Think about the beginning middle and ends of my words

Basic Facts

In maths each morning we have a basic facts slam. We have two minutes to answer 20 basic facts questions. If we can answer all of them in less then a minute five times in a row we get to move to the next level. Here is my basic facts slam page.

Discovery

In Discovery this week we were using language, symbols and text and showing our CARE values. 

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I was showing my CARE values by... 

"COMMENT"

Maths Term 4

Garden Discovery

In Discovery each week we look at how we can show the CARE values, here is how we showed our CARE values in our Garden Discovery!

"I was working with Nyziah"

Maths - Time

Maths - Measurement

WALT use meters and centre meters to measure things

Sophie was 1.29 meters in Term 3

In term 4 she is 1.33 meters!

Sophie's Photo on Thursday, 16 October 2014

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Sophie's Photo on Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Sophie's Photo on Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Fwd: Gymnastics

WALT
Make our bodies into shapes and perform rolls

In PE this term we have been doing gymnastics, we have been learning to make our bodies into shapes like the pike, straddle, straight, and tuck.
We have also been learning to do the rolls - pencil, hedgehog, elephant and forward.

Out next step is to put these together and make a sequence.

TEACHER COMMENT
Some of these rolls can be very tricky it is great to see how hard we are all working at making the shapes and following instructions.

Music

WALT Sing our songs for production

To practice our songs for assembly we have been getting together as Year 2s and 3s and singing as a group.

We have learned about how to sit, how to open our mouths wide and how to use the air in our lungs to make our singing as loud as we can.

SUCCESS CRITERIA
We will know we have succeded when we can sing our songs with energy and enthusiasm.

TEACHER COMMENT
We are sounding better every time and are slowlly remembering the words, production is going to be fantastic.

Batman - The Blend Gr

LEARNING INTENTION
To spot and read words starting with Gr

LEARNING OUTCOME
We will find and photograph words that start with gr

Term 2 Art Attack

LEARNING INTENTION
To produce a piece of Maori art using sketching and painting

SUCCESS CRITERIA
Sketch and the paint a koru using simple sketching skills and the dip and sweep painting technique

LEARNING OUTCOME
My learning outcome was Relational because I used a variety skills to produce my art

WHAT DID I HAVE TO SAY?
I liked getting to cover up our mistakes with the paint

Art - Sketching

LEARNING INTENTION
Today with Mr Shaskey we learned about sketching and drawing. We learned to set he limits, draw the outline and then add the shapes.

SUCCESS CRITERIA
We can follow instructions and sketch some fruit and vegetables

LEARNING OUTCOME
Relational because I followed instructions and finished my sketch

NEXT STEP
To practice what I learned

WHAT DID I THINK?
It was hard to use the crayons and the pencils
I liked doing the really dark lines

Batman Reading - Red Fast Word Hunt

WALT
We are learning to find the red fast words in our books

SUCCESS CRITERIA
Find and photograph red fast words from the books in our library

LEARNING OUTCOME
Multi-Structural because we found lots of words

Sophie's post on Friday, 28 March 2014

Sample of Writing from Term 1, Week 7

I choose the piece of writing I wrote on 21.3.14

WALT
Write a story with detail and SOLO assess it

SUCCESS CRITERIA
I will write a story and figure out what level of SOLO it is

MY SOLO LEVEL
Uni Structural
Because I have 1 idea

MY NEXT STEP
Multi Structural
Write more than 1 idea

WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS PIECE OF WRITING?
Because I like the picture

Reading - Order of Events

WALT
Talk about the order of events from a text

SUCCESS CRITERIA!
We can order the events from a text

OUR SOLO LEVEL
Uni Structural
Because we can sort them with some help from the teacher

OUR NEXT STEP
Multi Structural
We will be able to mostly sort them out on our own