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.

ANZAC

We have been learning about ANZAC Day and what it means to us - today the learners are performing in front of whaea Vikki.

Stay posted for pictures !

Play written and produced by ET

Yesterday I had the absolute privilege for one of our learners to approach me with an idea for them to put on a play for the hub. Unfortunately we were unable to do in front of the hub but I was able to video to share with you all.

I was blown away by the passion of the learner who "wrote" and produced this play and the passion she had to make it happen.

I hope you are all beaming with pride like I am.

Awesome work girls - Keep it up

Everyone needs a little sunshine.

Schooltalk Workshops Term 1

What: Two Workshops

• New Parents to SchoolTalk Setup
• Where is my child at?
• How can I support at home? (Full Progressions and Resources)

When:     22nd March 6:30 - 7:30pm

Where:    Hub 6

SchoolTalk is an important part of learning at Stonefields School. It enables teachers, learners and parents to know where a child is at in their learning and how they can support with their next steps. Additionally, it is a portal to inform teachers, learners and parents of what is happening each day in a child’s learning.

To support our parent community with learning how to use SchoolTalk at home with their child, we will be having our first SchoolTalk workshops for the year. There will be two workshops for parents to opt into.

Workshop 1 - New parents to SchoolTalk

This is aimed at informing new parents to our community of what SchoolTalk is, its purpose and how to access it.

Workshop 2 - Where is my child at? How can I support at home? (Full Progressions and Resources)

This workshop is aimed at parents who already have access to SchoolTalk and would like to understand how to navigate through all the progressions within the Graduate Learner Profile and utilise the resources on offer.

During the workshops we will also have further support available to troubleshoot any technical issues you might be experiencing with SchoolTalk.

All are welcome to attend.

Year 2's swimming

What a wonderful way to start the day! Our year 2's look like they were able to learn a lot.

WALHT take materials away from a group to find out what's left. I can do this with numbers up to 20

When you subtract with a pirate

Easing into our mornings

You may have noticed we have had a lot more construction and creative activities out in the mornings - the teachers in Akomanga Tekau ma Tahi have been working on building strong relationships learners - this has also helped for learners to build relationships with other learners too.

It has been a wonderful experience for everyone - I look forward to seeing some great results as the year progresses.

  

Making 5

WALHT to add two numbers together to make five. Here is a song we sang along with to help.

We are learning these songs in the hub this term

Meet the teacher Thursday 8th February

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1R5ZzyM3rRSCV_d5AAMOCvNM0bBPt4CY1BZAlq-PFg9c/edit

Welcome back to Term 1 2018 - Along with the other teachers in Akomanga Tekau ma Tahi we would like to invite you along to meet the teacher evening.

Attached you will find the powerpoint we will be presenting along with a lot of other information. 

We look forward to meeting you all!

Here are a few photos of learning we have done so far this term!