Kea Reading Group

The Kea reading group had a week long assignment, where they had to read the text to identify the main ideas, then create an informative poster.

• We are learning to identify the main ideas of the text
• Create a poster that includes the following success criteria:
• A diagram for each of the 2 heavy machines you have chosen
• A title for each diagram
• Information to explain what each heavy machine is
• Information to explain what each heavy machine does
• Information to explain how to be safe around heavy machines
• Your name, add some colour, you may also like to add a border.

The text and instructions

Kayla

 Luka

 Ashtyn

 Georgia

 Tu

Kikorangi Maths Group

• We are learning to use place value to solve addition problems e.g. 36 + 22 as 30 + 20 = 50 + 6 + 2 = 58

 Jurxiel

 Kayla

 Luka

 Georgia

 Shyloh

Habitat Assessment - Luka

• We are learning what a habitat is.
• We are learning to identify animals that live within a habitat.
• We are learning to describe what an animal needs to survive in a habitat.

Maths Time Assessment - Luka

• We are learning to name and order the days of the week
• We are learning to name and order the months of the year
• We are learning to tell the time to the hour and half hour

Luka Maths

Luka Reading Activity

Luka is learning to make connections between prior knowledge and new knowledge.

Success criteria:

• Write in pencil what we already know about Mount Everest
• Read the 'Mount Everest' book
• Write down in red pen new information as you are reading
• Discuss together the new information and if it connects with our prior knowledge

Clown Fish Art (Nemo!)

• We have been learning about the ocean habitat.
• What is a coral reef?
• What animals live in the coral reef?

We followed instructions to draw a clown fish

Rainy Day Lunchtime Fun!

The students made the most of a wet inside lunchtime by playing with the lego, play dough, and making crazy hairstyles:

Kea Reading Group

Table top twitter session!

• We are learning to make connections (prior knowledge to new knowledge)

Spelling Super Effort

Spelling Bee Prize Winner

Art session

• We are learning what the primary colours are
• We are learning how to mix primary colours to make secondary colours

My Living Thing

• We are learning to understand that all living things need different things to survive

During term 2, C6 have been learning about living things; we learnt about honey bees, oak trees, and kiwis. For our assessment, they had to create their own creature/living thing, and label how it breathes and how it moves. They then wrote a report that explained what their creature was, what it looked like, where it lived, and what it needed to survive. Next they put it all together into a poster.

Measurement

•  We are learning to measure objects by length, width, & height

Kowhaiwhai art

• #Maths learning meets Art learning
• We are learning to create a kowhaiwhai pattern artwork using translation, reflection, and rotation

Writing group sessions

• We are learning how to write an explanation
• We are learning how to participate & contribute in a group

Today we started to learn how to write an explanation. We looked at 2 different examples, and then wrote one together as a class. The students were then put into mixed ability groups and had to write an explanation on "how to have a fun birthday party". 

Living things and measurement:

How many C6 students are the same height as an oak tree? We measured ourselves and added together, all together including Miss Bridgeman we were 2,888cm. 20 C6 students together = 2,453cm which is the closest to the average height of an oak tree 2,400cm.
This was a great learning activity to introduce measurement and continue our learning of oak trees.