Akomanga Tekau Mā Tahi's Manaiakalani Film Festival Entry

Kia ora,

Welcome to our blog!

Here is our entry for the Manaiakalani Film festival this year. We hope you like it!

Make your own headset for break through

Make your own headset

Hub dance

Our trees have been planted!

Unfortunately, due to the very wet weather, we have had recently Hub 11 has been unable to plant our trees for our class project, however, amongst the wet weather our kind groundskeeper and gardener fought the wild weather to plant these for us! Today we went down to inspect they did a good job! I think the learners approve.

Assembly Week 2

WOW! We have some pretty amazing learners in hub 11 - here are three of the recounts that we wrote after our sleepover. I was 100% proud of these kids as they read so confidently in front of the whole junior school.
You can find more along the walls in Hub 11 - on both the Paddington Bear wall and in the middle near the maths trolley!
I look forward to seeing more exciting writing as the year progresses!

Hub 10, 11 & 12 sleepover

WOW! What an amazing night that was shared! A massively successful night which can be accredited to your wonderful children.

Everywhere we looked you could see children from other hubs networking and forging new friendships with other children they may not stop to talk to throughout their busy day, Adults alike it was wonderful to see the connections being made and putting names to faces for both children, teachers and parents.

Thank you for coming along and making this event what it was!

Below you will find a link to access photos that were taken on the night!

We look forward to hearing any and all feedback to make future events run smoothly.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1n2MEJPFW0BPds3CDNYPTRwEu7T0RiWOZ

How can I help at home with reading?

How can I help my reader at home?

Before reading

Predict - Before beginning the story, look at the front cover. Ask your learner what they think the story might be about? How do they know that?  What connections can be made? Get your learner to think about things they have experienced, things they have seen or heard.

Questioning and Comparing - compare your predictions with each other? Feel free to challenge your learner. Throughout your story check your predictions, do you think it happened? What has changed in your thinking? Can you show me evidence of where this happened?

During reading

Questioning - Ask your learner questions throughout the story, challenge their thoughts. Ask them to show you evidence.

Compare - throughout the story can you compare what you thought at the beginning of the story to the middle and end of the story. Did you know that would happen? How? Why? What connections can you make? What evidence is there?

Strategies - Read on and read back to make sense of the text

Chunking - what blends and digraphs do you see in the text, is there a suffix like ed, s, ing, tion?

Stretch the word out to hear all the different sounds

Is your mouth ready to start the word? What sound is at the beginning?

Is this a plural? How do you know?Is there a prefix?

After  reading

Summarise Can your learner retell the book in sequence? What details are they able to add?

Questioning  When thinking about questions you can ask, think about questions where the answer is directly in the story E.g  Where were the children playing?

Also ask questions where the answer may not be in the text and learners have ti activate prior knowledge and look at the picture to make connections to figure out the answer. It doesn’t matter how far fetched the connection might be, as long as your learner can see a connection and the answer is right. Talking about how they made that connection is useful because then you are able to see the weird and wacky way they got there.

Extra tips for reading

High frequency words - Ask your learner if they can find any of their list words in their story - make it a competition “who can find the most” children thrive on the competitiveness.