KC

The children have been reflecting on their writing development. Individually, they looked through their writing books, comparing their writing at the beginning of the year and their writing now. Then they worked with their writing partner, looking together at each other’s writing, noticing how the writing had improved. Finally, we met as a whole group [...]

The children love to take turns at reading stories to the rest of the class. This is a wonderful opportunity to develop a sense of audience and to practice skills such as pause, voice pace and inflection. Recently, Olivia read a book that she had particularly enjoyed. We videoed the story session and showed the [...]

As part of our unit of inquiry into where we are in place and time, throughout the year the children will be reflecting on their personal learning journeys and on how their growth and development leads to new opportunities. The children have been thinking about things they can do now that they couldn’t do before. [...]

KC students have been making a stop-animation movie. This has been a LONG process involving huge amounts of problem solving and team work. The children have had to: conduct Internet and library research to come up with an authentic setting and credible characters plan, draft and finalise the movie script make characters and props, paying [...]

A couple of days ago, the children noticed that one of our goldfish, Sandy was bent double and was lying on the bottom of the fish tank. Lego, the other goldfish was also looking a bit sick. We observed the fish carefully for the next two days. Lego seemed to get little better. However, Sandy [...]

Today KC and KF joined together to play a game to help them learn about 3D shapes. Jenny and Aina showed the rest of the children how to play. Jenny and Aina sat back to back, so that they could not see each other. Aina went first. She chose a shape. She did not tell [...]