I am learning to recognise, name and form numbers 10 to 20.

"It was easy going up to twenty.  Seventeen was the hard number for me.  Mrs Wyatt helped me."

I am learning to identify punctuation.

"I know where the full stop is, and the one that makes your voice go loud.  I point to the words.  Reading is hard.  I can read lots of words now.  Mrs Wyatt helps me read."

Obstacle Course with Youthtown

"It was fun.  I could run fast over those things. It was easy. I want to do that again."

I am learning to write words with vowels as the middle sound.

"I am writing a Silly Sentence.  I was learning the middle sound is 'e'.  Mrs Wyatt helped me with the words."

Tapa Design for the Art Exhibition

Whole Class Reflection – Art

Learning: “I learnt how to draw patterns.”   “I learnt to not put too much dye on the cotton bud.”.  “I learnt about tapa from Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands.”

Tricky: “Drawing some patterns was tricky.”  “The dying – had to be very careful.” “Keeping the vivid on the pencil lines.”

Proud: “The dye looked beautiful and I was proud of that.”   “I was proud of my patterns.”

Help: “I needed help to dye some parts of the panels, drawing over the pencil lines with vivid, putting the right cotton bud in the right container, knowing about different patterns.”

Next: “I want to learn more patterns.”   “I want to know more about the Cook Islands, Tonga and tapa.”  “I want to use vivids more in the classroom.”  “I want to learn more about drawing.”

I am learning to read back my writing.

"I am good at drawing the pictures.  Some of the words are hard to write.  Mrs Wyatt helps me to write."

I am learning to identify a sentence, for eg, the beginning with capital letters, and the end with full stops.

 "I can find the letter for the card.  I make the sounds of the letters.  No one helped me do it.  I felt good when I finished."

I am learning to recognise, read and write numbers 1-10 correctly.

"I am good at writing my numbers."

Building with Bunnings

"I like the truck.  I had to use nails and wood and glue and paint."

Lots of fun playing Kiwiball

"I like rolling the baseball.  I liked using the baseball glove."

i am learning one to one matching and return sweep

In Reading we have been learning lots of things to help 

us to work out new letter sounds and words.

"I like playing soccer" Ryder said.

I am learning to attempt to write my idea in a sentence that makes sense and re-read my story to the teacher

In Writing we have been learning lots of things like writing our ideas in a sentence and writing some sounds in words.

"I can write some words by myself" Ryder said.

Chinese Dragon

We have been learning about different celebrations this term.  This is my Chinese dragon.  I was learning to make the body shape look like a dragon and cut out the different dragon shapes.

"I was good at colouring inside the black lines and making my dragon's body shape."

Tens Frame Patterns

We have been learning to draw number patterns to ten on our tens frames.

"It was tricky for me to draw the tens frame and draw the dots down to fill up five first."

I am learning to make the first sound in new words

In Reading we have been learning lots of things to help 

us to work out new words, and learning new letter sounds.

"I like looking at the pictures in a story" Ryder said.

I am learning to have a try to spell words

In Writing we have been learning lots of things like letters, drawing a picture that matches our story and also remembering to do finger spaces between words. 

"I can do a picture about my story" Ryder said.

I am learning the attributes of numbers to 10

In Maths we have been looking for numbers in every day situations.  We have been making sets and coming up with different ways to write numbers.

"Here are 4 train carriages.  I can count to 4.  I used to be 4 but now I am 5."

I am learning to build my water confidence

I am learning to build my water confidence.

When we go to the swimming pool we do lots of things including safe entry into the pool, getting ourselves wet, blowing bubbles, floating with and without help, gliding and playing fun water games.

Ryder said:  I can float on my back with a noodle.

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