Review of Term 1

On Friday we looked at what went well this term, what didn't go so well and the changes we would like to make for Term 2.

Good things:

Our targets and evaluations in our planners

Practical 'build a boat' home learning challenge

Turning our writing into e-books and movies to share

Using a movie as motivation to write 'Shadow Stories'

Daily 5 - reading not worksheets

Camp - initiatives, team work

Maths interchange

Sports spectacular 

Being in the waka - all belonging and working together

Having our learning on the blog

Our inquiry action and having choices

Lots of practical team challenges like making pancakes and putting up tents

Being responsible for the sun-smart chart

Bad things:

Our poor listening skills

Allana needs to give us more reward cubes for the pyramid

Sometimes class is noisy - sometimes learning takes noise!

We are not giving house group points

We need to sell our books and use book letters more

Check that our planner evaluations are in detail

Caring more for iPads and class resources

We are  not using 'thinking hats' in class

We son't stop quickly enough for 'Stop, look, listen'

Not being ready to learn at the end of break

Changes for Term 2:

More fitness, PE and Turbo Touch

Use IPICK in Daily 5 better so we have the best books

Use the 'class jobs' roster better

Add new jobs for people saving electricity and re-cycling

Do more art in class

Make small white planners for most and some large ones

Home learning - grid for two weeks then homeplay challenge for two weeks

We have had a really exciting term of learning.  We feel that all our team activities and camp has helped us get to know each-other and belong in our team.  We can't wait to see what Term two has in store as we find out 'What makes us a Kiwi'.