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.

Visual Art

We looked at Koru patterns in picture books and in kowhaiwhai patterns. We then practiced drawing korus ourselves.

We visited the art gallery and learnt about a variety of Māori symbols and then we created an artwork by overlapping cut out symbols with straight, jagged and curved lines.

This is my artwork based on the artwork created by Reuben Paterson.

Māori

We are learning to count in Māori and ask and answer a sentence about how many objects/people there are. 

Briley was able to write the sentence to answer how many animals there were in each picture.

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.

Discovery Time - Term 3

You enjoy being creative on your own and with your friends Briley.

 

Maths Strategy - Term 3

Briley is able to add 2 digit numbers by using place value and known facts to add the groups of tens and groups of ones. 

Briley's next learning step is to subtract 2 digit numbers by using place value and known facts to subtract the groups of tens and groups of ones. 
 

Writing - Term 3

Briley is working hard to reread her writing and check her punctuation. Her next learning step is to consistently use adjectives to make her writing exciting for the reader.

Briley, I enjoyed hearing you read the story that you wrote about helping out doing jobs at home.