Kia ora whanau and caregivers,
This week has been a really awesome week for learning! The students have come back to school filled with enthusiasm and ready to learn! We have also started some new areas of learning which the children are really enjoying. One of these areas is Strand Maths. The new area which we are focusing on in Strand Maths is Position and Orientation. This unit of study is exploring shapes and how they can be moved or rotated.
The students have been able to explore this area of maths through very interactive lessons where technology and movement are heavily integrated. One lesson which the students really enjoyed was exploring positional language and movement through designing and sharing a challenge course.
To do this, the students were given a small number of objects in the classroom and they had to design a challenge where another group had to move by changing their position or orientation, using high or low movements, and also using locomotor or non-locomotor movements. The students completed this well. One member of each of these groups took photos of each step of the challenge with the iPad and they are creating instructions using positional language on how to complete their challenge course. Some positional language that they are learning to apply to themselves and shapes are North, South, East and West, and forwards, left, right, back, over, under and around just to name a few.
Please see the photos below of our exciting Maths learning:
We have also been doing some great learning in Drama. The children in Room 5 have been exploring Superhero Freeze Frames and Catchphrases. Please see an example of one of our Freeze Frames below where a student is posing as the superhero Hawkeye!
I hope everyone has a great weekend and I look forward to seeing you all again next week for more exciting learning!
Nga mihi,
Nicholas Shimasaki
