I am learning about rhyming words.

"I can read the books and point to the words very good.  I can think of rhyming words to the words in the book that I am reading.  Reading is not hard for me.  Mrs Wyatt helps me."

Learning Soccer Skills

What did I learn?

·      How to kick the ball

·      How to make the ball move fast and slow.

·      How to control the ball.

·      How to kick the ball straight down the lines.

·      How to kick the ball together in a team.

What did I find tricky?

·      To kick the ball to our team mates.

·      To kick the ball far away.

·      The Shark Attack game was hard to get to the other side.

·      Getting the ball off the other children.

What was I proud of?

·      Scoring a goal.

·      Winning and nearly winning Shark Attack.

·      Doing a header.

·      Kicking the ball.

Who helped me?

·      The Coaches and Mrs Wyatt

What would I like to do next?

·      Do more soccer clinics, and play more games.

·      Play a different game and sport like Touch, Tag, Hide and Seek, Running Races.

I am learning to write words with vowels as the middle sound.

"I write a Silly Sentence.  Word families, with 'e' and 'i' and 'o' in the middle of the words.  Mrs Wyatt helps me."

Tapa Design for the Art Exhibition

Whole Class Reflection – Art

Learning: “I learnt how to draw patterns.”   “I learnt to not put too much dye on the cotton bud.”.  “I learnt about tapa from Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands.”

Tricky: “Drawing some patterns was tricky.”  “The dying – had to be very careful.” “Keeping the vivid on the pencil lines.”

Proud: “The dye looked beautiful and I was proud of that.”   “I was proud of my patterns.”

Help: “I needed help to dye some parts of the panels, drawing over the pencil lines with vivid, putting the right cotton bud in the right container, knowing about different patterns.”

Next: “I want to learn more patterns.”   “I want to know more about the Cook Islands, Tonga and tapa.”  “I want to use vivids more in the classroom.”  “I want to learn more about drawing.”

I am learning to write my idea in a sentence that makes sense.

"I am good at sounding out the words, and I am good at spelling words.  Sometimes my writing doesn't make sense.  Mrs Wyatt helps me with my writing."

I am learning to use chunking to decode new words.

"I am finding the letters to make a word. It was hard because I couldn't find the letters easily.  I did it all by myself.  I felt happy when I was finished."

I am learning the patterns for numbers 1-5 are recognised instantly.

"I liked doing the missing numbers, because they were all easy for me.  I counted the beans, and my fingers."

Lot of fun playing Kiwiball

"I could catch the ball in the glove, and say 'chomp'."

Building with Bunnings

"I made a photobox.  I glued it, and used a hammer and nails."

i am learning to sound out three letter words. Attempt new words and think what makes sense

In Reading we have been learning lots of things to help 

us to work out new letter sounds and words.

"I liked when the dog chased the girl" Jessica said.

I am learning to have a try to spell words using my alphabet card and using known letter sounds

In Writing we have been learning lots of things like writing our ideas in a sentence and writing some sounds in words.

"I can write some words by myself" Jessica said

Tens Frames

We have been learning to draw patterns to ten on our tens frame.

"It was tricky for me to write the number 7 and sometimes 6 and 9."

Rangoli Pattern

We have been learning about different celebrations this term.  This is my Indian Rangoli Pattern.  We were learning to make our pattern look symmetrical.

"I was good at colouring all the background white."

I am learning to make the first sound in new words

In Reading we have been learning lots of things to help 

us to work out new words, and learning new letter sounds.

"I know some letter sounds" Jessica said.

I am learning to start writing on my own

In Writing we have been learning lots of things like letters, drawing a picture that matches our story and also remembering to do finger spaces between words. 

"I like doing spaces between words" Jessica said.

I am learning the attributes of numbers to 10

In Maths we have been looking for numbers in every day situations.  We have been making sets and coming up with different ways to write numbers.

"I made the number 3 using playdough.  A triangle has 3 sides."

I am learning to build my water confidence

I am learning to build my water confidence.

When we go to the swimming pool we do lots of things including safe entry into the pool, getting ourselves wet, blowing bubbles, floating with and without help, gliding and playing fun water games.

Jessica said:  I can blow some bubbles.

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