Discovery Time - Term 3

Ezra, you and Khan enjoy dressing up and having a laugh.

Dance/Drama

Maui catches the sun

 

We participated in our syndicate production called "Maui catches the sun." 

We helped to chose some dance actions to go with the lyrics in the song "Slow down sun." We danced and acted and we were very brave when we performed in front of an audience. 

We were learning to:

• Use our knowledge of daily activities/chores to create movements
• Create and perform a movement phrase using locomotor and non-locomotor moves 
• Work cooperatively with another child when creating and performing a dance sequence 
• Discuss how facial expression, movement, and gesture can be used to create meaning   

This is us practicing our dance 

  

This is us in our costumes getting ready to perform for an audience.

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. 

Māori

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

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

Visual Art

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

Absent for art gallery sample and glitter artwork sample

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.

Maths Strategy - Term 3

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

Ezra's next learning step is to use number properties rather than drawing the tens and ones.