My Family Tree

We have been learning to introduce our family in Te Reo. I think I am going pretty good and me, Riya & my buddy got my buddies done & have nearly recorded it!

Active Listening

We are learning about different types of listening. There are 3 main types of listening that we learnt about. Busy Listening - When the person listening is busy doing something. They are too busy to concentrate on what is being said. Me Too Listening - When the person listening has a story that they feel is more important than the person talking so they interrupt and share their story instead of listening. Active Listening - When the person listening looks at the person talking, concentrates, gives non-verbal feedback (e.g. nodding) and asks questions about the story. To learn about the different types of listening, we watched this video:

 

 As a class we created our own video to help us understand the different types.
After practising each type of listening, we realised…

• Busy listening makes us feel like you’re not listening to us. We found it really hard to keep talking. 
• Me too listening makes us feel frustrated and sad that you think your story is more important. 
• Active listening makes us feel valued. We know you are listening because you are looking, nodding, asking questions. 

 As a class we are all trying to get better at being active listeners.

Hailstones

In music with Jenny we are learning to play in a band. We are all learning different instruments and we are working on our rhythm. Check out our videos:

My Reflection:

With Jenny we did a song it's called hailstones. I played the drums but not in the 1st video.

Swimming Goal

I have not achieved my goal in this video BUT I have now! In swimming we have done backstroke. I am very good at backstroke.

My Maths Learning

With Brenda we  did our 5 times tables to workout our 6 7 8 and 9 times tables.

My Reflection:I very like maths and i'm very good at it. When I do maths it makes me feel good.

Swimming sports day

At swimming sports widths went first. I did lengths. It was so fun it was AWESOME! After Every race was finished we went to the esplanade for lunch and a play.IT WAS AWESOME! SO AWESOME! I saw my mum. She saw me too. She watched me do my backstroke and my breaststroke. I did freestyle too. That was a awesome day. I'm in kiwi house. I said"let's go kiwi lets go." My goal for next year is to go farster.