Te Waka o Matariki

We worked in groups to sequence some story cards.  We worked in groups to say which picture came first, next and last.  Then we had to make up a story to match the pictures.  We had to look very carefully at the pictures to see what order to put them in.

Te Waka o Matariki

This was the sentence that Mason wanted the Te Waka o Matariki group to write together.  We all helped to form the sentence and worked out that there were six words in the sentence.  We then stretched out the words and wrote down the sounds that we could hear.  Hopefully our caterpillar will grow bigger as it has 3 leaves to eat.  The caterpillar's length is found from the number of sounds that we wrote correctly and the leaves come from the number of words that we wrote correctly.

Thanks Mason for a great idea!

Te Waka o Matariki

Our newest Burnside Stars are showing just how independent they can be with their learning.  Today they all buddied up by themselves and followed our Must Do and Can Do board brilliantly and with focus.  You are awesome Burnside Stars already!

Te Waka o Matariki

Today during our Te Waka o Matariki time we worked with a buddy to see if we could find tricky pictures inside an even bigger tricky picture.  We had to be detectives!

We also learnt to use our values of respect.  When we work with a buddy we have to use our manners, help each other to focus to complete the task and to finish the task to the best we can do.

Miss Browne was very proud of all the manners and compliments she heard.  "You can have the pen now", "Well done!  You found it!", "Remember to tick it off at the top", and "Thanks!" were all great things that buddies said to each other this morning.

We still need to work on using our words instead of pointing to the answers so that we are helping our buddies, not telling them or doing the activity for them.

Riley and Tyson were great buddies together.  They stuck at their 'Must Do' activity and worked really well together.  We love how proud they look!  Ka pai boys!