Technology-Halloween Cupcakes

Seth's job was to design a decoration with a Halloween theme to top his cupcake. Firstly he looked at some Halloween designs, then he chose his design, drew a picture of it and coloured it. Seth made a prototype of the decoration using play dough. The final step involved Seth using royal icing to make his design and sticking it to the top of his cupcake.

EOTC

Park Visits:

This term with his classmates, Seth has walked to The Barnyard Park or Brookside Park to participate in play in our school community. Seth has followed the safety rules while walking to and from the park and played safely whilst at the park. Seth played alongside his class mates at the park.

Communication

Learning Goal: Seth can answer questions about material he has just seen, ie, who, what, matching or find one like this.


Evaluation: Seth is an Achiever. Seth has achieved this goal, answering questions about material to Level 2 of Blanks Questions. Seth will often find things in the pictures of give information before the questions have been asked. Seth has also asked me some questions about the texts he has viewed.













Next Steps: Seth's next step involves work at Level 3 of Blanks Questions which includes gathering information which is inferential.

Maths

Maths Learning Goals:

Seth will learn to skip count in 10’s, then 2’s.
Seth will participate in position and orientation activities.
Seth will order New Zealand currency in value.
Seth will count forwards and backwards.

Evaluation: Seth can confidently skip count in 10's. He is learning to skip count in 2's and can currently skip count in 2's to ten. Seth is a confident counter, counting easily forwards to 100 and counting backwards using a 100's board. Seth can accurately order New Zealand currency from smallest to largest value and he enjoys using the money to make purchases from our little shop. Seth has also been experiencing statistics through activities which involve chance and thought around possible outcomes. He has also been learning the language used to describe position and orientation, for example, under, on, left, right or forwards and backwards.

Next Steps: Seth will continue with skip counting in 2's until he has achieved this with confidence. He will also continue practicing addition and subtraction and the Strand Maths subjects.

Physical Education and Health

Learning Goal: Seth will participate in learning a range of team games that require hitting a ball, fielding and communicating as a team player.



Evaluation: Seth is a very able sportsman with great hand eye co-ordination for hitting and catching and throwing balls. He has been experiencing these skills, including participating as a team player, by playing t-ball with his peers.


Next Steps: Seth will continue to experience team activities with the focus on working as part of one team to reach a goal.

Health
Learning Goals:
1.Engage in learning activities that involve keeping themselves safe.
2.Learn “who” are the people that can help them and how to access that help.
3.Engage in learning activities to develop friendship skills.
Evaluation: Seth has engaged in activities involving naming the people in his life who he would ask to help him if he needed assistance. He has role played situations where he has had to ask for help and he has chosen to ask parents and grandparents for help at home, and teachers for help at school. Seth knows that a police person will help him if he needs help out in the community. As part of friendship activities this term, Seth has participated in learning to pay a compliment to friends in our class. As part of 'boys club' Seth has also practiced skills around wiping his bottom in the correct direction and until it is clean.

PMP: Seth has participated in PMP on Monday mornings and Thursdays with Sharon Utteridge.




Swimming: Seth will learn to hold the float correctly, kick with arms extended on his front. He will play in the water, relax and enjoy. Seth will float and kick on his back.
Seth is learning to hold the board with straight arms and to kick fast so that his feet do not sink. He is also learning to float on his back with his head right back in the water so that he can float safely if he ended up in deep water. Seth clearly enjoys the water and can swim under water using his arms and legs to move.


Fitness:
Seth participated in physical activities with the goal of extending his fitness and well being by running or walking around the school field 2 or more times daily.
Seth was a keen participant in this exercise and ran hard to be the winner.


PMP:
Seth
PMP sessions this half of the year have focussed on teamwork, cooperation and decision making skills via a series of physical circuits, games and fun activities. Seth is always a keen participant during these sessions and enjoys the interaction with others and/or myself. He is comfortable with communicating his likes and dislikes and is mostly able to attempt every activity with success. Seth really enjoyed the fun activities of hula hoop challenges, musical hoops and games such as duck, duck goose. He is a delight to have in PMP.

Literacy

ILP Learning Goal: Seth can engage with an adult on set literacy tasks.
Evaluation: Seth is an Improver. Seth has participated in a variety of literacy tasks with the goal of building confidence in his alphabet knowledge and specifically making the connection between the phonetic sounds and the letter name. Seth is now able to correctly identify 90% of alphabet letters and make make the name connection with the phonemic sound.

Next Steps: For Seth this is about taking risks and making attempts at decoding words when he is reading. Seth does not like to make mistakes and this puts him off trying to sound out a new word. Seth will continue to practice literacy activities that allow him to practice making the sounds of the beginning letters of words. He will continue to expand on his language use for speaking and writing in his stories.

Written Learning Goal: Seth Green will use written words and visual language to describe his technology constructions.
Seth is able to find the adjectives, through discussion or from a word bank, to describe the technology he has achieved during literacy, and can write about and evaluate his creations.

Oral Language Goal: Seth will use descriptors when delivering his news.
During news time and the presentation of technology Seth has begun to use interesting describing words to give detail to his news and stories.
Reading Goal: Seth will read at level 3.
Seth's reading has improved over the last term, with him showing more confidence in his willingness to make attempts at words that he is not sure he knows.

Managing Self

Learning Goal: Seth can follow safe steps to toast his bread and spread on his jam.
Evaluation: Seth is an Achiever. Seth has achieved this goal and is able to independently toast his bread, spread his jam on and cut his toast.
Next Steps: Seth's next step could involve making a more complex toastie where he is required to add more ingredients and cook it in the toastie machine.




Learning Goal: Seth can follow a visual sequence to make himself a hot milo drink.

Evaluation: Seth has achieved his goal of making a hot milo independently. He knows what to do to make a milo safely and he does not require visuals to complete this task.

Next Steps: Seth could transfer this skill to use it at home.

Technology - Biscuit Design

Seth's brief was to design a biscuit flavour and choose some ingredients to add to it. Seth chose the sweet oaty biscuit and added chocolate chips to his batter. Seth drew his design, coloured it and add the extra ingredients he chose. Seth made his biscuits and baked them.

Thematic Unit

Science
Learning Goal: To participate in hands on scientific experiments, where he could explore using descriptive language through scientific exploration and play.
Seth experienced a number of hands on experiments including make predictions about oil and water, thinking around why mentos makes diet coke explode into a volcanic eruption, questioning why white, brown and dark chocolate melt at different rates, predicting if ice melting will impact on the level of water, and predicting what impact salt has on the rate ice melts.


Evaluation: Seth participated in these experiments. He got to ask questions, make predictions and get involved in seeking answers for the questions we asked.



Fitness
Learning Goal: To participate in physical activities, such as, run around the field, to gain fitness and physical health.
Evaluation: Seth participated in physical activities with the goal of extending his fitness and well being by running or walking around the school field 2 or more times daily.
Seth was a keen participant in this exercise and ran hard to be the winner.

Technology

Learning Goal: To participate in hands on Technology practice to design and produce specific outcomes, and
to learn how to label and report information about technological practice.


Evaluation: Seth participated in technology practice by designing biscuits, making a mosaic photo frame, halloween cupcakes, and writing stories which were then made into imovies.

Technology

Learning Goal: To participate in hands on Technology practice to design and produce specific outcomes, and
to learn how to label and report information about technological practice.

Evaluation: Set participated in technology practice by designing biscuits, making a mosaic photo frame, halloween cupcakes, and writing stories which were then made into imovies.

Technology - Mosaic Photo Frames

Seth rolled out salt dough, cut out small tiles and set aside to dry. He designed his photo frame, choosing Christmas as his theme and decided his colours. Seth then glued the tiles to his photo frame and painted on his colour choices.

Physical Exercise Term 4 2017

Tball Skills - Seth will participate in learning a range of team games that require batting a ball, fielding and communicating as a team player.

During sports this term Seth has been building up to playing a 40 minute game of Tball alongside his peers. Seth already had very good batting skills and he now holds his bat in the correct position in order to get the best results from his swing. Seth can bat a ball a fair distance and score home runs with complete independence. Seth has accurate fielding skills and his mission is always to catch his opponents out with speed. He is working well on his team work skills and he uses supportive language towards his fellow team mates.