2016




 * Term 1: Identity - Who am I? **
 * Independent Learning: **


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Kiwi Kids Fun activities about NZ Citizenship ||=  ||=

Build a neighborhood Create your neighborhood ||=  ||=   ||=   ||

All About Me! Who Am I? ||=  ||= The Gingerbread Friend Make your own Gingerbread friend ||=  ||= Getting Along A Guide ||=  ||
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Me Maker A fun activity to create 'YOU' ||=  ||= Tiger's house Story book - How to be safe at home ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.5;">Friends <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Read the 'friends book' ||=  ||
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">__Blog posts__:
 * <span style="color: #4b1194; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26px;">Student Learning: **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|'Who am I?' #1]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|'Who am I?' #2 (Customs and Traditions)]


 * <span style="color: #d16c23; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 28.6px;">Term 2: Systems (Planet Earth and Beyond) **


 * <span style="color: #d16c23; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 28.6px;">Independent Learning: **

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<span style="color: #154cba; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">All About Caves ||=  ||=

<span style="color: #154cba; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Cave Formations ||=  ||=

<span style="color: #154cba; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Climbing Through the <span style="color: #154cba; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Rock Cycle ||  ||=

<span style="color: #254cba; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Stories in Stone ||


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 * ||= [[image:Earth Systems.jpg width="205" height="204" link="@http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/earthsystems/parent_page.html"]] ||=  ||= [[image:Volcano Explorer.jpg width="266" height="209" link="@http://discoverykids.com/games/volcano-explorer/"]] ||=   ||= [[image:Weather Wiz Kids Volcanoes.jpg link="@http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-volcano.htm"]] ||=   ||


 * <span style="color: #d16c23; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23.4px;">Independent Learning: **


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<span style="color: #154dba; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Rocks and soils <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">Test the rocks ||=  ||=

<span style="color: #154cba; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">The Talking Cave <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">An easy to read story ||=  ||=

<span style="color: #154cba; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Rocks are all very different <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">Here you can see how they are formed ||=  ||


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<span style="color: #154cba; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Rocks are all very different <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">Here you can see how they are formed ||=  ||=   ||=   ||=   ||=   ||



__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.5px;">Blog posts __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.5px;">:
 * <span style="color: #d16c23; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 23.4px;">Student Learning: **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16.9px;">[|Writing Stories about Volcanoes]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16.9px;">[|Volcanoes]


 * <span style="color: #1d6496; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 28.6px; line-height: 1.5;">Term 3: Creativity - Think it, Do it, Make it **


 * <span style="color: #1d6496; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 28.6px;">Independent Learning: **



<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Curious George Mix and Paint ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Colour with Leo ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Draw a stickman || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Art Attack ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Picassohead ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Colour, Draw, Paint ||
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<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Colour is all around us... ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">What is a Pattern? ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">How are Textiles Decorated? ||
 * = [[image:Colour is all around us.jpg link="@http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/media/services/thechildrensuniversityofmanchester/flash/colourwheel.swf"]]



<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Early Birds Singers ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Follow the musical turtle ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Mozart's Piano Lessons || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Dance Game ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Foxy's Dance or Rhyme game ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Compose Music ||
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<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">Dance <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">This Term we are looking at Dance ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">Music <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">We find out more about Music ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">It's Showtime <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">Explore Performing Arts and Kapa Haka ||
 * [[image:little-giants/Dare_to_Dance.jpg link="http://www.wicked.org.nz/r/wick_ed/topics/dance/"]]
 * [[image:little-giants/Dare_to_Dance.jpg link="http://www.wicked.org.nz/r/wick_ed/topics/dance/"]]


 * <span style="color: #1d6496; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 28.6px; line-height: 1.5;">Student Learning: **

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.5px;">Blog posts __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.5px;">: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16.9px;">- [|Our own 'Mini Olympics'] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16.9px;">- [|Cherry Blossom art]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16.9px;">- [|'Little Red Rocking Hood' Matinee Performance] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16.9px;">- [|Production: 'Little Red Rocking Hood']


 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 46.8px;">Term 4: Living World - Conditions & Influences **


 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 28.6px;">Independent Learning: **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Plant and Animal Local Environment ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Saving our NZ forests ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Build a Habitat || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Places animals live ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Sort plants and animals into groups ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Sorting Game || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Do you know where each animal should live? ||=  ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">Food Chain Game ||=   ||
 * = [[image:little-giants/spot_living_things.png width="292" height="210" link="@http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/plantsanimals.html"]]
 * = [[image:little-giants/all_about_animals_aaa.png width="298" height="200" link="http://www.parkfieldict.co.uk/infant/a.swf"]]
 * = [[image:little-giants/all_about_animals_aaa.png width="298" height="200" link="http://www.parkfieldict.co.uk/infant/a.swf"]]
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 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 28.6px; line-height: 1.5;">Student Learning: **

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.5px;">Blog posts __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.5px;">:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px;">- Animals, Birds and Life Cycles <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.5;">- Birds and Camouflage <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.5;">- [|Living and Non Living Things] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.5;">- [|A bird nest] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.5;">- [|Bird boxes] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.5;">- [|Bird feeders]