Reading

Reading

Connor, you are learning to use your strategies quickly, and if the first one doesn't work then try another one.

You really enjoyed reading Greedy Cat and read with great fluency.

Connor, your next step is to accurately blend three letter words that have the vowel trapped in the middle e.g. sit.

Music

This term, we have been having fun playing on lots of different instruments in the music room. 

We have been learning: 

• How to identify the beat and play along with the music in time, using the percussion instruments. 
• How to play some chords on the ukulele. 
• How to sing songs and play the ukulele at the same time.
• How to persevere even when we found it a bit tricky to begin with.

No sample - Connor did not participate in music

Māori

We are learning to count in Māori and ask and answer a sentence about how many objects/people there are. 

Connor was able to match the number in Māori with the correct number of animals in a picture.

Visual Art

We looked at Koru patterns in picture books and in kowhaiwhai patterns. We then practiced drawing korus ourselves.

Absent for art gallery art sample and glitter art sample

Social Science

We wrote about who is in our family, what we like to do with our family, what our family likes to eat, a family celebration and family jobs and chores. We created a poster with our writing and then we drew a picture of our family.We learnt about ourselves and we are really proud of the quality poster we created.

Discovery Time - Term 3

 

You enjoy dressing up and being creative at Discovery time Connor.

Maths Strategy - Term 3

Connor is able to use known hand patterns and known facts to solve addition and subtraction problems that have 10 as one of the numbers.

Connor's next learning step is to solve addition problems by holding the biggest number in his head and counting on in increments of one.