This will be a one off Master Chef competition. Students will work out beforehand a 3 course meal.

We will be exploring elements of symmetry and transformation including translation, rotation and reflection.

Term 2 2017 - HB Kiwi's storytelling story.

3 x weekly phonics lesson based on Yolanda Soryl's Phonics Programme

Work through Stage 6 of the Yolanda Soryl Phonics program.
Students will learn middle long vowel sounds.

Work through Stage 5 of the Yolanda Soryl Phonics program.
Students will learn digraphs for beginnings and ends of words.

Libby's group are focussing on correct formation, size and shape of letters.

This group are independent readers but they will still read with their LA 3 times per week to develop fluency and build comprehension.

Turquoise guided reading texts include less familiar themes, and although settings and contexts may be outside the students’ prior knowledge, they

Green guided reading texts include some contexts and settings that may be outside students’ direct experience but can be easily related to it.

Red guided reading texts include very familiar themes and ideas, drawing mainly on New Zealand contexts and settings.

This term we will be working on addition and subtraction and revising our strategies from Term 1. We will then learn some new stage 5 strategies.

Moving from counting from one by imaging to Advanced Counting.

We are learning to read a text and find meaning contained within it.

4 x weekly guided reading sessions to build on basic strategies for decoding and understanding text.

We will be reading 4 x weekly to establish book knowledge and reading processes.

This term we are doing a homebase inquiry using the planning book used by HB Fancy Chicken.

Moving from Counting from one on Materials to Counting from one by Imaging

Moving from one-to-one counting to counting from one on materials in English (and French).

3 x weekly phonics lesson based on Yolanda Soryl's Phonics Programme working through stage 4

The home base will have a weekly 30 minute session with Mary learning music and singing.

Work together in small and large groups to understand how to interpret data, plan a statistical investigation and gather and display data.

Build a scale model of the new school building
Scale: 1 x 6 circle brick = 1 metre

We have been out to visit the frog pond at Discovery. When Discovery leave their site it will be returned to pasture and later built upon.

We are hoping to run a cafe once a week at school, eg. Wednesday mornings.

Doing research on Maori art patterns and making posters for the community.

I'm organising an event for 10 people. They will all a character/bio which I will write and one of them will be the murderer.

We are going to sew things such as coasters, purses and bags to sell to people at the New Brighton Market so that we can give at least half the mon

We will work through guided reading sessions to develop autonomy in comprehension and retell strategies.

Students will take part in workshops at least three times a week.

I am making homemade sandwich wraps to sell to the school community and family and friends. This will cut down on disposable plastic lunch wrap.

To go with the below of Collect/Connect/Create workshops to be held that cover different applied sporting skills that combine different fundamental

Students participate in outside of school competition for rugby

My project is to make a really high quality video on surfing which will encourage people to go into the outdoors and surf.

Aiming to fundriase for Circus in Kathmandu via disco(Libby is linked to Christchurch circus group who often fundraise for Kathmandu young children

Digs is going to organise a gymnastics course for students in 2.2.

This group is working with the LA to check planning in the morning and for needs based workshops.

Students will work with an author to further develop their writing skills.

A focus on diversity in writing.

Students will continue to use the Story Telling model to explore how to write narratives.
Students will:
listen to stories,

Students will participate in groups created from Numeracy Project Snapshot testing.

CLW
Leading or participating in workshops lead by peers.
Using self management skills to participate.

Working through problem solving in maths in pairs of very small groups.

Come as your own character/cosplay event
Get an author to come - how they write and produce their stories

We want to create a series of evolution posters to be displayed at Orana Park.

Stuff

As a way to model out HB inquiry book and to work on some of our key competencies as a class, we are engaging in a whole Home Base Inquiry on Autum

As a way to model out HB inquiry book and to work on some of our key competencies as a class, we are engaging in a whole Home Base Inquiry on Autum

On Friday mornings we will be looking after the animals we have brought to school, animals naturally occurring in our school environment, meeting v

The home base will have a weekly 30 minute session with Mary learning music and singing.