St Albans Has Talent

Check out all these talented children. These children are the finalists from each part of the school. They performed with our school rock band on the last day of school. Well done guys, you are talented and thanks to all the other children that took part and auditioned.

French Fun

Justine has been working hard encouraging the children to learn parts in the play Goldilocks, in French of course. The children did superbly well!

Kiwi Kids News Term 3, 2013

This episode of Kiwi Kids News is all about the arts as that as been our inquiry focus this term. This episode was made by Gabrielle, Caleb, Charlotte, George, Estella, Miyuki, Catherine, Hugo, Emmanuel, Sydney, Lucy and Emily.

Loneliness

Today our Year 2 group continued to explore the idea of loneliness. They then recorded their thinking in a poem and described the image they would like to accompany their work. I then put them together for publishing.

How do you know who and what you are?

Today's discussion centred around what makes us special and unique. We first explored things about us we thought were pretty special.

Ava loves her long hair and playing in the sandpit.
Mae loves that she is great at reading.
Max loves he has lots of friends.
Rory loves his jumping.
Kai like playing games and paling on the big playground.
Olivia loves that her Mum and Dad take her out for dinner.
Charlotte likes she is gentle.
Cooper loves having lots of people that love him.
Patricio likes that he is strong.
Magnus likes that he is love.
Emily loves how fast she can run.

How do we know what and who we are?

• by measuring ourselves
• our family tells us
• we can listen to our selves
• we can write down information about ourselves
• look at photos
• watch DVD's and videos of when we were younger
• look in the mirror
• ask others
• feel yourself
• our friends and teachers tell us
• people want to be out friends
• we can use similes to describe ourselves

Sometimes Work Has to be Hard

This is a timely post today as the FPS team prepare to undertake their final booklet under lock down conditions. This is a very hard and uncomfortable task for them. I believe even if they don't do as well as we hoped the exercise is making them stronger as learners.

Work feeling hard is a foreign concept to many able learners and something I have talked about them needing to experience before they get further through their schooling. I encourage them to feel okay with the uncomfortable. I stumbled across the same post today which is say the same thing.

Click on the image to read the full article.

Friday's Philosophy

This week the Year 2 group continued to use Amelia Ellicott's Garden although this week we explored the concept of loneliness.

Was Amelia Ellicott really alone?
What does it mean to be alone?
What does it mean to be lonely?
Is being alone the same as being lonely?
Can you be in a crowd and be lonely?
Can you be by yourself and not be lonely?
Are there times when it is good to alone?
Are there times when it is good to be lonely?

Next week we will write some poems, drawing on our discussions of loneliness.

The Year 1 read the Kathryn Cave book 'Something Else.'

We then discussed what is the same and different amongst our group.

Same	Different
·      Hair ·      Bodies ·      We play games ·      We wear clothes ·      We cry ·      We laugh and smile ·      We can move and jump ·      We talk	·      Eye colour ·      We are boys and girls ·      Some wear glasses ·      Coloured hair and kin ·      Speak other languages ·      Play with different otys ·      Learn different things ·      Have different kinds of families

We finished the session by identifying and sharing the things about ourselves that we really liked.