Week Two

3 Way Conferences

This week The Rising Stars have been super busy setting our learning goals and thinking about what we need to do to achieve them in preparation for our 3 way conferences next week. We are looking forward to seeing all parents and children on Tuesday 17th of May and Wednesday 18th of May at your booked time slots to discuss these goals.

Writing

In Writing we have been learning about explanations and their purpose and structure. We looked at an example of explanation writing which was called- How is food digested - which helped us to identify the different parts of an effective explanation. The purpose of an explanation is to explain how or why something happens. We also learnt that an explanation has the following things in the structure of how it is written....

1. Title: This is a short statement about the topic.
2. Definition: Defines the thing or process.
3. Description: Describes the parts or elements to the process.
4. Process: How the thing or process works.
5. Application: Application of the object, machine and process.

Reading

During Reading this week two groups had the opportunity to perform their group plays in front of the class and they did an amazing job. Sometimes getting up in front of other students and performing can be really nerve wracking.....but I was extremely proud of them all for getting up and giving it a go.

Awards

On Friday at school assembly we had several award recipients...

PRIDE Empathy Award: 

Congratulations to Ofeira for always being considerate and thoughtful to others.

Duffy Award: 

Congratulations to Ana for showing great effort and improvement in all curriculum areas.

100% Attendance Awards

Congratulations to Stanton, Ofa, Sasha, Dantae, Margaret, Harrieta, Ofeira and Angelina

 who were at school every day in Term 1.

Rippa Rugby session

On Friday we were super lucky to have our first Rippa Rugby session with T-Rex from Counties Manukau.  He introduced us to some of the basic skills involved in playing the game and we had the opportunity to also practise some useful strategies to help us when we work with our team to score a try.  It was a lot of fun and some of the Rising Stars had a chance to showcase their singing skills throughout the session too.

 

  

 

 

 

 

Week One

This week The Rising Stars have settled back into school really well and are excited to see what the new term brings.  We have discussed our classroom rules, expectations and our school PRIDE values to ensure we are on the right track to managing ourselves and ready to achieve the goals we set in our learning.  

Our theme for this term is Me and my Community, and in our class we will be looking at creating our own question or questions, and using the inquiry process of deciding, finding, selecting, using, presenting and evaluating to investigate it.

Today in Reading the Bears group performed their very first play called Double Feature in front of the whole class and did an amazing job entertaining us.  Their learning focus was to read fluently with expression and they very much achieved that!  It was great to see how confident they were and when the play was finished the rest of the class gave them some awesome feedback on their performance. Tumeke Bears!

In Maths over the next four weeks our focus is on multiplication and division.  We have been building up our knowledge and instant recall of our timetables to enable us to use different strategies to solve multiplication and division problems with higher numbers.  Here are some pics of a few members of the yellow group using place value to solve one of the problems. Well done Dantae, Paul and Gabriel!

Class Swimming

This term the Rising Stars have had several swimming class sessions to build our confidence in the water and to develop our swimming skills and abilities. Here are some of our pics.....

Assembly Dance

Last Friday the Rising Stars and Kung Fu Pandas hosted the whole school assembly.  They were super excited to present their dance item to everyone. Here is a small clip of our dance item to the song " Better when I'm dancing".

Performing Plays

The Alligators reading group has been practising reading journal plays and have been working on performing these in front of the class.  We have been learning to read our texts fluently with expression and after each performance the group receives feedback from the class on what they did really well and what they need to work on for next time.  Well done Alligators!