The Fox and the Crane

We have been learning about Narrative stories. For this retell we decided our goals were to use at least
- 5 different sentence beginnings
- 5 conjunctions
- 4 adjectives and
- 2 similes

To hear the story of The Fox and the Crane, click on Ryan's recording for the beginning and Ji Won's recording for the ending.

Mercury and the Woodman

Our language topic is Narrative. We are learning to tell stories using different sentence beginnings and conjunctions. We are learning to describe a characters using adjectives and similes.

We listened to the story of Mercury and the Woodman then we made stick puppets of the characters. We retold the story as a group. Here is the video of our retell ...

Shared lunch

Last week we had a day when all the children dressed up and brought food from different countries. I brought something from Swizerland and it was called cacets und hornly. It is like a kind of spaghetti with meat on it. My favourite part of the day was trying all the food because I was really hungry. I tried lots of other foods. I had lots of sushi and cacets und hornly. The cake was delicious. It was a lemon flavour.

Visit to Mairehau First Learners Preschool

Today the Senior and Middle School ESOL students visited Mairehau First Learners preschool. We went there to practice our oral language skills by teaching the young children how to make origami cups.

Here are some of our comments about the trip ...

Ji Won "I enjoyed playing with the children because I made new friends, knowing each others name, age and something they liked. The children did not know how to an origami cup. We helped them."







Yusuke "I thought it was hard to ride the little bikes."






Stephanie "I learnt about speaking louder and using a verb at the start of the sentence."






Natsuko "I had to use a big loud voice. I had to help the children."






So Won "I read a story about pirates and they found some treasure."






Samuel "Playing on the playground with the little kids was fun because I made new friends."






Ryan "Helping the little kids was good because I could teach people. I had to talk loud and help them."

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Grandma

My grandma is very funny because she knows lots of Jokes. Once she took me to a crazy circus .
She has a great memory because she never forgets things.

We've been icing biscuits!

Synonyms

Today at ESOL we learned about Synonyms. Synonyms have the same meaning.

Green group and apostrophes

Ryan said, " I am thinking about where the apostrophe should go". "We have been learning about apostrophes and we learnt that we don't put apostrophes when there is a plural word", said Aron. Jee Sung said, " I think it's hard because there are some tricky one like 'you're' which is short for 'you are'."

Apostrophes

Aron is helping Ryan to use apostrophes. Ryan is thinking hard.

Kakapo group plant sunflower seeds

On Monday, we got to plant sunflower seeds outside our ESOL room. First, we had to rip three seeds off a brown, hard sunflower head. Then we put the special seed raising mix into a pot. Next we put the seeds into our pots. But the seeds had to be spread out, because sunflowers need lots of room to grow. Last of all we watered our pots and left them in a warm place.

Kakapo group

We have been learning about nouns last week. This week we are learning about verbs.

Kakapo Group

Ryan - Today I have been learning about common nouns and proper nouns.
Aron - I have been learning and writing about nouns. We had a test about nouns.
Jee Sung - I have been learning about nouns - proper nouns and common nouns.
Moiz - I have been learning about proper nouns.

Reflections on our Rest Home visit

"I liked serving the old people because it was fun. I was very happy that they were happy with the food and my sharing." Tae Hun

"I enjoyed when we showed our work because I was very brave and they were proud of us." Chris

"I liked when the people saw my curly hair. They said my hair looked so curly and cute." Aron

"I liked when I was sharing about Switzerland because it was my home country. I told them about where I grew up and how I like to go to the mountains." Ryan

"I liked showing the other people what I made." Noa

"I liked doing the slideshow because I was helping people." Yoon Su

"I quite liked the lolly cake because we made it and it was quite delicious." Yoo Kyung

"I liked being helpful and sharing all about me. I said all about me - that I like bunnies, I am seven years old and I am from Korea." Na Myung

"I liked telling all about me because then we knew each other." Yoon Seok

"She didn't know my story and I told her my story so I am happy. She said it was good." Soo Hong

Mathematics Learning - Term 2

For the first half of this term the students were working on learning the language of Geometry - position and orientation.

The Yellow, Red and Purple groups learnt to use prepositions accurately for example above, around, in, on, under, behind and in front.

These junior students are placing pictures on a scene by following instructions which include prepositions.



The Green and Blue groups learnt the language of mapping for example clockwise, anti-clockwise, left, right, North, South, West and East, whole, half and quarter turns.

After following oral instructions to reach their destination, these senior students are hunting for buried pirate treasure.



They then created maps and instructions of their own.

The Green and Blue groups are now learning about Measurement - capacity and weight. The students are applying their knowledge and vocabulary by baking for their visit to Mayfair Rest Home in Week 9.