I am learning to use our site, find my group and insert a screenshot.

This week we have been learning about fact families to help us with our times tables. I am on the 5X tables.

Here are three examples:

8X5=40                     5X8=40.               40➗5=8.            40➗8=5

4×5=20            5×4=20                20➗4=5              20➗5=4

5×6=30                 6×5=30           30➗6=5         30➗5=6

I think I am pretty confident with fact families.

I might need a bit more work on fact families.

Kia orana.

For Cook islands Language Week, we get to choose which text we read. Today I chose to read A Quilt For Kiri. It is about…

This is one of the pages from the text I am reading:

We are learning to know when to double consonants when adding a vowel suffix. This is my mahi so far:

Today, we started learning about Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory which describes the different ways we learn and acquire information. We did a survey to see what our strongest learning styles might be.

I found that I am strong in Naturalist, Musical and Intrapersonal. We will be using this information in our learning, this term.

Next time, I will share more information about my learning styles.

Today we have been learning about the subordinating conjunctions if and when.

These are my examples:

• If the Jenga blocks fall, I will pick them all up as fast as I can.
• When the blocks fall, our game is over.
• When I have finished my blog post, I will share it by publishing it.
• If I finish my blog post, I will have time to create another one.

Say and Sing

This term, we are learning to say and sing the karakia, Kia Tau. For a number of years, we have been really confident when singing it but struggle to say it. This has been the case for staff too so there is some good learning for all of us.

Finding a video of the waiata version was quite difficult so we decided to make our own so all of our classes can learn it.

This video is the first take and the quality isn’t as good as we would like and there are a couple of words that we need to pronounce better so we will work on that.

This year, we started school the day before Waitangi Day. As part of our Learn Create Share pedagogy, we had a hub brainstorm session to see what we already know about Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Waitangi Day.

To gather our ideas, we created a MindMup to show our current ideas. After we did some more learning, we added our new learning to the MindMup.

Our next step is to add nodes and elaborate on the facts we have learned.

The grey boxes are from our first day and the yellow boxes are from a session a couple of days later.

Waitangi MindMup

Zones of Regulation – Our Week Two PB4L Focus

Here is part of our learning for our Values focus, the Zones of Regulation. We started refreshing our minds about the Blue Zone.

Our next step is to refresh ourselves about the other zones.

Mihimihi Quiz

In Week One of Term Two, Te Ara Angitu used a Kahoot! to check in on our knowledge of keywords used in our mihi.  The questions were:

The podium for this week is:

Our next step for this area of learning is to have all of our hub improve on their first attempt by having another go of this Kahoot!