Ana's Nature Scavenger Hunt

Today, in our Writing lesson, we were supposed to go on a Nature Scavenger Hunt. We had a list of living and non-living things to use as a guide. We needed to go outside, look for any of these in the nature, draw a picture of them, write their name down and read them out to someone at home. 

                          

This is the Nature Scavenger Hunt list from our Writing lesson.

This is Ana's Nature Scavenger Hunt picture collage and her drawing and writing in her book. Well done, Ana. This is fantastic. I am glad that you enjoyed your scavenger hunt with your lovely mum and little sister, Leina as I heard in our second hangout session today. You told me that you could find nearly everything on the list except the butterfly, water and fern.

Can you tell what each picture is showing?

My Bird Feeder

Kia ora Leilani, 
What an enthusiastic and confident learner you are. You have been joining in our online classes nearly every day. You pay great attention and try your best. This week we have been learning about creatures in our natural environment like insects and birds. We have been learning how to care for them. You showed a wooden bird house you already had at home. We decided to make a bird feeder. In our Inquiry lesson yesterday, we learnt how to make a bird feeder out of juice or milk carton and water or milk bottle. I showed you my bird feeder.

 Mrs Jalili's bird feeder

Today, you not only made your own bird feeder explaining the process so well but also completed your writing task. You even reminded us that we need to always start our sentence with a Capital or Uppercase letter, and put a Full Stop at the end of our sentence. 

You have shown a great example of how Manaiakalani pedagogy of "Learn", "Create", "Share" puts you at the very centre of your own learning.  I am very proud of you. Keep up your great learning. Ka pai.

Leilani's Birthday Message

Leilani, this is a Birthday message you wrote to your dad for his birthday. What a great gift to dad to see your neat writing with all the love hearts showing your Manaakitanga to him.

I learnt a new Maori word from you, Leilani. That is "heke" in Maori for "egg". It must have been a very special birthday breakfast for your dad!

Leilani's writing on first day of Home Learning

It was our first day of online schooling, learning from home.

Leilani, thank you so much for joining us on our class hangout meet, patiently listening to your teacher, showing passion and interest in learning from home. It was fantastic; and more rewarding was to see your lovely writing and reading it to me at our second hangout meet. Ka pai, Leilani. 👏
Thanks for sharing your learning today. Keep up the great work you are doing. 😊

Leilani's Writing At Home during Lockdown School Holiday

Leilani's writing at home:

Leilani has been busy learning at home during her school holidays. She has used her ABC Word Card to write sentences.  This is great, Leilani. Ka pai! Keep up your great learning at home.

Half Fraction - Equal Sharing

We have been learning about 1/2 and 1/4 fractions last week and this week.  We have learnt that a fraction is one equal part of a whole. Mrs Jalili has been cutting our fruits like apples and kiwifruits in halves and in quarters. It is much easier to eat them when they are cut into smaller pieces, and in this way everybody gets a fair share of all the fruits.

Today we looked at some shapes.  Mrs Jalili wanted to cut each whole shape into two halves by drawing a line. We helped by guiding her how far to move her ruler over the shape so that the line would sit right in the middle of the shape or how far to move one side over the other side to fold the shape exactly in half. Every whole shape turned into two equal halves. So each part became one half (1/2) of that shape.

Then we learnt how to do equal sharing on each half by counting the counters one at a time placing one on each half. We each took turn sharing different numbers of counters equally on each half of the circle shape. This was fun!

Waiaua equally shared 6 pieces of salami on two halves of pizza. 

Kyrie equally shared 8 pieces of salami on two halves of pizza. 

Leilani Explaining Her Understanding of Equal Sharing