Daily 3

During iDevelop, we use Maths Daily 3 to help guide our independent and workshop learning.  As you can see from the image above, the three parts of Daily 3 are independent, with a partner or small group and writing.    During Math by Myself, we will be working on our own maths goals, with a focus on number knowledge.   We will be visiting the maths progressions on our Learning Pathway to see which areas need more development and understanding, and to also look ahead to plan our next steps.

Math Writing is a time to use our interactive maths journal.   Each journal entry will be a learning activity which will give us a better understanding of a concept, e.g. 3D shapes, metric measurement etc.  We will be able to refer back to our journal entries another time when we are unsure or stuck on a problem.  This should help us to become more independent learners!

Math with Someone is exactly that - with a partner or small group.    Yesterday and today we have been moving around in a rotation to learn and play a variety of maths games.  We were learning collaboratively!   Some capable learners were also selected to be the leader of each activity.   Their job was to introduce the activity and support us when we got stuck.  

Here are some photos of us during Math with Someone:

#Being Oresome

Collaborative Playing

The learning focus for weeks 1 and 2 has been 'collaborative play'.   At the end of week 1, Mr McNeil introduced this to us at our hui and we spent a little time in our habitat to unpack what it meant and what it would look like - both in the habitat and outside in the playground.   

It's often easier to get a better understanding of what something means if it is put into practise and we love to play so we didn't hesitate to put our thinking around 'collaborative play' into action and test our theory.   What better way to do this than to play a game together.   The object of the game was to keep a balloon off the ground.   We could use any part of our body to do this, except our feet - and we had to keep holding hands!

It sounds easy, but we had to move together if the balloon was hit outside of our circle.   Mrs Croll told us that at the beginning of the exercise, she saw groups stand still while the balloon drifted outside of the circle.  She also saw a number of groups break away when they stopped holding hands. After a little time, she saw a change in the way that we played.   We started collaborating more by talking to each other; working together to keep the game going.    

Collaborative Play is lots of fun!

Welcome!

New Beginnings

The beginning of the year is always exciting and for us, it's extra exciting because LH6 is going to be in the brand new learning environment of Ormiston Junior College (OJC).  

 Our empty learning environment

We started the term in Te Manawa because OJC were not opening their doors until Tuesday 7th February and although this was a small space, we all managed to fit in there quite nicely as there was not a lot of furniture.   

Moving day couldn't come quick enough and it was an #oresome feeling to finally climb the stairs up to our new space.    After helping our Learning Coaches carry up some of the resources, learning continued - now in our happy place!