My Learning Goals

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Today we looked through our reports from last year. We identified a next step (goal) for reading, writing and maths. Here are my goals:

Maths: My goal is to read and add decimals.

To achieve this goal I will: practise with adding money and weights to practise my decimals.

Reading:My goal is to focus on higher order thinking to analyze and evaluate different texts.

To achieve this goal I will: discuss the books I read.

Writing: My goal is to add my personal voice and feelings into my writing.

To achieve this goal I will: add in my thoughts and feelings.

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We also looked at our STAR results.

• Word recognition I got 8 out of 10.
• Sentence comprehension I got 8 out of 10.
• Paragraph comprehension I got 14 out of 15.
• Vocabulary I got 9 out of 10.

I am going to focus on: Word recognition and sentence comprehension

To improve in this area I will: Use the links on our blog

Swimming Sports

When we got to the lido we had to split up into our houses, I'm in Kiwi.
Then we first did widths.
I'm sorry I forgot to tell you I'm doing lengths.
 Then we started. It started from year 6 girls to the year 3 and 4 boys.
Then we did lengths. The year 6 girls to my group.
I was excited about freestyle. Then we started. I  came first!
Then we did backstroke. I came 4th.
Then we did breath stroke. I came 1st.

I felt my spin chilling all the way through swimming sports but I feel proud now. 

I got changed as fast as I can.

Then we got ready outside to got to the esplanade.

We had to walk. It felt like walking up Mount Everest.

Then we got there an had some lunch.

Then we went to play.

I went on the flying fox.

When I went down my tummy felt funny.

After that I played hide in go seek.

I ran to the fort then I hid by the ladder.

then Nelson came to it, he walked up, I ran to the pole, I got down.

Then we stopped playing. Then Troy played the come in sirin.

Then we hopped in the bus and went back to school. My goal for next year is to parctise backstroke

EOTC Week

On monday we went to Bledisloe park. We went for a bush walk.
 Then we went to kids republic. I loved the rock climbing.
then it was construction day. my spine was chilling because i thought that our building was going to fall over. then it was art day. my favourite bit of art day was the inside out art.
 then it was water day. the best bit about it was falling of the boat. after that it was camp day. we got to make smores and hang out with our friends. in my tent there were Jai, Chris, Elliot and Ryan.

Active Listening

We are learning about different types of listening. There are 3 main types of listening that we learnt about. Busy Listening - When the person listening is busy doing something. They are too busy to concentrate on what is being said. Me Too Listening - When the person listening has a story that they feel is more important than the person talking so they interrupt and share their story instead of listening. Active Listening - When the person listening looks at the person talking, concentrates, gives non-verbal feedback (e.g. nodding) and asks questions about the story. To learn about the different types of listening, we watched this video:

 

 As a class we created our own video to help us understand the different types.
After practising each type of listening, we realised…

• Busy listening makes us feel like you’re not listening to us. We found it really hard to keep talking. 
• Me too listening makes us feel frustrated and sad that you think your story is more important. 
• Active listening makes us feel valued. We know you are listening because you are looking, nodding, asking questions. 

 As a class we are all trying to get better at being active listeners.

Family Tree

we have been learning Te Reo Maori. We have been drawing and getting better at learning each others family. I hope you like my video.

Music

In music with Jenny we are learning to play in a band. We are all learning different instruments and we are working on our rhythm. Check out our videos:
 

My Reflection:

I have been learning to make a band.
My goal is to stay in time.
I hope I get better at it.
I hope you like this video.

Swimming goal

In swimming my goal is keep my chin on my chest.
I couldn't really practise because I had earake.
I hope you like my video.

Maths

With Brenda today in maths we did times tables. We learned how to split it into different groups.


My Reflection: 
It was easy using animal stripes. i feel alright using them. 

Garden Gnomes

We planted wild flower seeds. They're still trying to grow. Some of them have sprouted. It looks quite damp. None of the flowers have come out yet.