Discovery Time - Term 4

Connor, throughout the year, you have enjoyed a wide range of activities during Discovery Time.

Dance/Drama

Maui catches the sun

 

We participated in our syndicate production called "Maui catches the sun." 

We helped to chose some dance actions to go with the lyrics in the song "Slow down sun." We danced and acted and we were very brave when we performed in front of an audience. 

We were learning to:

• Use our knowledge of daily activities/chores to create movements
• Create and perform a movement phrase using locomotor and non-locomotor moves 
• Work cooperatively with another child when creating and performing a dance sequence 
• Discuss how facial expression, movement, and gesture can be used to create meaning   

No sample - Connor did not participate in the production.

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.