Identical shoes

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One day Nature and Kahurangi came to school with the same shoes. They both noticed and from this a discussion was formed. We started to think about another word we could use instead of 'same.' Kahurangi came up with 'identical.' And so a song was developed! Another unknown word taken into the known!

Explain Everything + More!

Today we took another step into 'Explain Everything.' Using the above pictorials we had the children access their Google Drive to retrieve and work on a pre-formed EE sheet. By using the strip the children easily accessed their work, completed the task and after using voice recognition saved their work as a video to share on Air Play. Tipene was able to continue his counting on his own, after initial prompting, once he realised he had pressed the record button!!

Tipene from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Kahurangi was able to go away and work on his own- recording and then sharing his learning.

Maths Kahurangi from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Nature 10 Feb from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Kahurangi 10 Feb from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Today we did a 'think, pair, share' about the weekend. This is the first time we had attempted anything like this so the children were a bit unsure. Four of the children were able to share but their partners were unwilling to share. With teacher support and prompting all but one were able to share. The stories were recycled as a class and then written in the children's books. While some children were writing others were sharing their stories with some support. An interesting twist in both Blog samples is a little girl who shadowed the children during their oral story time. She was able to fill in the 'others' gaps, however, would not attempt her story... A WORK IN PROGRESS!

Kahurangi 7 Feb from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Today we began building evidence of the children's Oral Language. Each learner was given the opportunity to share in front of the class a story we had co-constructed and built into an action song which was recycled over 2 days. Kahurangi confidently sung the story back to the class and identified many of the words. The learners were filmed on an iPad to keep it as normal as possible.