Staying focussed
Ki-ora Khalad. September has been a very big month for you,
What learning is
happening here? Khalid,
I noticed in your individual
learning goals for this
term that you are learning
to find experiences and
activities that will guide
you in deepening and
extending your interests.
I can see through this
creation you are using your
imagination to its fullest
capacity. You are
staying on task and
becoming more
imaginative. I wonder
what you will come up
with next?
you have been using your imagination to create and design
things. Today you found the construction blocks and
proceeded to create something fantastic. When I first asked
you what you were creating you said silly teacher Lynda, cant
you see its a robot?, see these (pointing to the blue rods at
the front) are the magic petrol tanks and these ones are the
fire guns (pointing to the green rods) these ones are the legs,
and these ones are the other legs, teacher Lynda its actually
a robot dragon, you know? And the underside of his body is
the switch off button, and you know, it stops moving then.
Also all the spots are, hhmmm, they do something, these
spots are called parachutes, you know that? wow no I didnt,
thats a pretty impressive robot Khalad. You continued to
make changes to your robot-dragon and asked if we could
leave it so you could show your daddy, so at tidy-up time you
brought it over and asked to put it on the teachers desk till
daddy comes to get you.
It was great to see you staying focussed on what you were
doing, even when your friends asked you to play, you said you
wanted to finish your robot-dragon. I was so impressed with
you Mahsa Allah Khalid good job.
Contribution/Mana Tangata: Children develop by participating
actively in the opportunities that are available to them. They
experience an environment where they are affirmed as
individuals, recognising and appreciating their own ability to
learn /te rangatiratanga.
Exploration / Mana Aotuuroa: Over time and with guidance and
encouragement, children become increasingly capable of
playing, imagining, inventing and experimenting. Children use
creative, critical and metacognitive processes to make sense
of information, experiences and ideas. Intellectual curiosity
is at the heart of this competency.
T. Lynda September 2017