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

The intention is these skills will be revisited and continued to be practiced in subsequent writing.

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

The the focus for the writing program non fiction writing and is using the storytelling method of Chris Smith - explore, brainstorm, map, act, shar

Talk to Write
Purpose is to understand how a story is sequenced and to remember it and write the story.

Athletics - Run, Jump, Throw

Touch - pass, catch, dodge, run, working together

Volleyball - catch, hit, working together

This is the place for our term 1 inquiry to be updated as we formulate our plan.

The group is split into three years.

Year 4 focus on friendships.

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

This group meets on Fridays to sing.
We learn new songs and rhythms.

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

In this PINs we will make some Princess Dresses which are inspired by Gina and Nadine bringing in their wedding dresses and also by our favourite m

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

(This group formed in week 8 of the term)

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

Building an understanding of music and it's technical aspects such as beat, rhythm, melody and dynamics (loud, soft etc).

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

A focus on racket skills and correct direction.

A focus on Large ball skills in passing.

To create an environment that supports and develops short lived workshops that inspire and hopefully spark future interests.

In maths this term we will be learning numbers to 10 then 20. We will be able to count forward and backward to 10.

Students will read with their LA 4 times per week to gain confidence and build fluency and develop skills.

Students decided they wanted to run stalls at the Motukarara Fireworks festival.

In these sessions we will have children running workshops about their passions and interests.

Learn about Christchurch's closest natural harbour and good places to visit.

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

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

We will read write and count numbers to 100 in 1's 2's 5's and 10's, know how many 10s in 2 and then 3 digit numbers, solve addition and subtractio

The NZ Opera presented La Traviata in english, set in a kiwi fish n chip shop. It was designed to engage students year 4 onwards.

In this programme we will be learning about:

2 x weekly handwriting sessions based on Casey the Caterpillar Handwriting Programme for printed letters.

Learn and use the decoding strategies listed below to help us read. Understand what we are reading and talk about/ask questions about it.

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

The students will participate and learn in daily swim sessions with coaches from Starfish swim school.

Groups will be skill based.

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

This term we are giving the children ample opportunity to manage learning within the day.

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

Students are working towards being able to "image" numbers to solve problems

Further develop basic skills for reading during 4 x weekly guided reading sessions.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Moving from Counting from one by Imaging (imagining) to Advanced Counting (stage 3-4).

These students were assessed this term at Numeracy Stage 1.

We will collaboratively go through the storytelling process and based on plot, setting and characters. then engage in three activities

This term we will learn to write recounts. A "recount" is the name for a story that retells something that we've done or experienced.

In HB Kiwi we will use Te Reo words and phrases to support the teaching and learning.