I am learning to find halves, quarters and other fractions of sets and shapes.

"I learnt about fractions. The pizza was easy to learn. It was hard to fold the paper perfect.  It was hard to do the big fractions like 7/10ths.  Mrs Wyatt helps me do the Maths."

I am learning about rhyming words.

"I learnt to say the beginning, middle and end of the story, and rhyming words.  It is easy to sound out the letters in the words.  It is hard to read the really big words.  Mrs Wyatt helps me with my reading."

Learning Soccer Skills

What did I learn?

·      How to kick the ball

·      How to make the ball move fast and slow.

·      How to control the ball.

·      How to kick the ball straight down the lines.

·      How to kick the ball together in a team.

What did I find tricky?

·      To kick the ball to our team mates.

·      To kick the ball far away.

·      The Shark Attack game was hard to get to the other side.

·      Getting the ball off the other children.

What was I proud of?

·      Scoring a goal.

·      Winning and nearly winning Shark Attack.

·      Doing a header.

·      Kicking the ball.

Who helped me?

·      The Coaches and Mrs Wyatt

What would I like to do next?

·      Do more soccer clinics, and play more games.

·      Play a different game and sport like Touch, Tag, Hide and Seek, Running Races.

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

"I wrote a Silly Sentence, with letter 'e in the middle of the words.  Mrs Wyatt helped me.  It was easy for me to write Silly Sentences."

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 as I write and edit my work to make sure what I write makes sense.

"It is easy to write the words for my writing.  Sometimes I put capital letters in the middle of my sentences.  I can write lots of sentences.  Mrs Wyatt helps me sometimes."

I am learning to use chunking to decode new words.

 " I was finding letters that make words.  I did it all by myself.  It was easy for me."