Life Education

We have been treated this week with 2 lessons from Jamie in the Life Education van.

Life Education is an interactive educational programme linked to the National School Health Curriculum and presented in hi-tech mobile classrooms which provide a unique learning environment with audio-visual materials, interactive models  and Harold, the Giraffe, chosen as the mascot because he stands tall, and this is what we want our students to do.

Jamie brought alive for us the theme of Body and Physical Activity.  We thoroughly enjoyed Jamie's enthusiasm and the interactive programme she presented, and of course we were all excited when Harold appeared!!  We found the presentation on the circulatory system very interesting and helpful for our linked literacy programme back in the hub.

  

Origin Sport

Year 3 and 4 students in room 3 are very fortunate to have the expertise of Greg from Origin Sport every Thursday afternoon. 

Origin Sport was established in 2011 with the main aim being to provide the opportunity for Year 3 and 4 children to participate in team sport. It’s focus is on keeping grass roots sport local and available to all.

Origin Sport operates on numerous fronts and provides services to a wide range of people in the local communities in the south west of Christchurch.

  

Cross Country

Thank you to Mrs Currie for organising an enjoyable Cross Country for all our students this afternoon.  Congratulations to the hub 34 place getters:  Zaria, Gus and Nevaeh (1st in their age group), Summer, Hamish, Jed and Chiara (2nd in their age group) and Mata and Fynn (3rd in their age group).  Well done to ALL students for your enthusiasm and efforts.

Anticipating

We did it!

Very happy!

Drama

Enjoying theatre games - 'Energy Circle' and 'Splat' in our weekly Drama class.  The middle and senior syndicates are divided into 4 Drama groups each Friday from 10.50 - 11.45am.  All groups are enjoying themselves immensely as they learn about the different aspects of Drama.

New Zealand Sign Language Week 2017

Each May, Deaf Aotearoa runs New Zealand Sign Language Week, celebrating one of New Zealand’s official languages. NZSL Week raises awareness of New Zealand’s Deaf community and provides a platform for Deaf people to proudly promote their language and culture.

Today we were very lucky to have Mrs Rutherford, Yuan's support teacher from Van Asch Deaf Education Centre, share with us her knowledge of sign language.  She not only taught us the alphabet in sign language, but she also made herself available for students to learn more sign language at morning tea.  Thank you Mrs Rutherford! 

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Week 1 term 2

What a great week the 'hub 34' (room 3 & 4) has had!
A special welcome to Nevaeh Iosefo from St Joseph's School in Auckland.

We ventured into our new literacy environment from 10.00 to 12.30 Monday to Thursday - reading, writing, phonics, handwriting, oral language - all connected to the 6 learning areas chosen by the students and which Mrs Clark & Mrs Currie set up the learning for: Human body, Animals, Fairytales, Buildings, Space and Sport!

  Here is an example of one group on one day:

BUILDINGS:

Wonders of the World Megastructures

Pg 4 - 11

What is a megastructure?

Can you think of an example before we begin the book?

What does ancient mean?

Why is the Great Pyramid so important?

How many people did it take to build it?

Why don’t we know how the pyramids were built?

Where is Egypt?

When students read unknown words allow them to decode using their choice of strategy. Model and together use the robot or phoneme fingers.

Write a report comparing ancient megastructures to modern mega structures.

Teach the students the structure of a report.

Model a report in the modelling book, encourage the students to contribute ideas.

Guided Writing - Students plan their report and use the facts from the story. They begin with their introduction.

Independent Literacy - Students complete their first paragraph and chose a megastructure to research more and create mini-poster on.

Handwriting based on students needs from observations of students writing.

- Lesson Sequence can change and content may vary depending on students interests.


The week was a great success! Here are some of the things the students said about it:                              Positives:            

• Read Theory
• Silent Reading
• Teachers are lots of fun
• Listening Post
• Learning new words
• Learning about around the world
• We get choices
• Writing different styles
• Doing fairy tale stories
• Reading Challenge was fun
• Doing it all together
• Learning new things
• Learning about space
• Reading with the teachers
• Reading animal stories
• Reading the books
• Writing with detail

Changes/minus:

• More 'must do's'
• Passion project (in pairs) - when my friend is at the teacher at the opposite time
• Longer
• More time

On Monday we were treated to the New Zealand Playhouse (thank you Miss Duncan for organising this).