This integrated literacy unit uses a story written in the form of a play as the starting point for a number of oral and written language manipulati

This integrated literacy unit uses a story written in the form of a play as the starting point for a number of oral and written language manipulati

Students will take part in a series of workshops, as below:

Students will take part in a series of workshops, as below:

We are a group who are passionate about animals of all kinds every where - be they elephants, sharks, pangolin, tigers or geckos - and and how hu

We plan to find out what the needs of these two local organisations are and find practical ways we can help them meet these needs.

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

To work with students through guided reading to learn comprehension and retell ability of texts.

To work with students through guided reading to learn comprehension and retell ability of texts.

In this unit students will:

We want to create a stall at the New Brighton Market on Saturday
Research what is already being sold at the market.

We want to build a sculpture to put from the old site into the new site in the city.

A big project self chosen and designed by students with LA support.

Twice weekly guided reading sessions to build on basic strategies for decoding and comprehension of text using Sharp Reading program.

Learning to play play football and participating in football inter school competitions.

Learning to play play rugby and participating in rugby inter school competitions.

To develop a dance and learn new dance moves weekly with Sarah Marshall.

To work with students through guided reading to learn comprehension and retell ability of texts.

Session 1:
Watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnr65z4AN_I

This term we are going to select an ocean creature to write a short information report.

We are using the text " Raconte-moi les sons".

Children learn the name of letters

We are going to make a short film on experiments showing that people can be manipulated to react to pain when there is none present.

The aim of the project is to make as many blankets as I can and donate them to pregnancy help on Pages Road.

Moving from stage 5 to stage 6 in Numeracy Project

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.