Hokowhitu ESOL

We read Brave Triceratops by Beverley Randell. We took a few pages each to illustrate and recorded it for your entertainment.

One of our group-mates found a dreidel from an ESOL group from years ago. “What’s this?” he said. “Can we make one?” The children had to find out about the dreidel and make one for homework. We used a net from Enchanted Learning. Here is our video of us playing the dreidel game.

Here are a couple of stories from our holidays.

We had been reading Snow on the Hill Road. This made us think about times we had seen snow. We haven’t seen it often so it is very exciting.

We read the story The Big Toe. We thought about what the ‘something’ that wants its toe back could be. We wrote about it and drew pictures of what we thought it was.

We have been finding out about penguins over the last couple of weeks. Here are some of the things we have learned.

When we came in to our room we saw that Mrs Higgs had left a picture of Up on the board from when she was working with someone in the morning. Ms Finikin hasn’t seen Up and we were telling her all about it. We wrote about the movie and some of us recorded our work. We like Up.

We started this year with a book about polar bears. This got us interested and so we went home and found out some more information about them.

Today we talked about what we enjoyed in ESOL this year. After that we ate Japanese snacks and got our end-of-year presents.

Even though we have had a small group this year, we have enjoyed ourselves and learnt lots.

As one of the Reading Recovery children had read The Flying Fish today, he came to the ESOL class to learn how to make the koi kites. One of the ESOL buddies listened to him read then taught him how to make the fish. They had fun together.

Over the last few weeks we have been playing Castle Explorer. We have learnt about castle life and how to read to find information.
The game was illustrated by Stephen Biesty and has 3D rooms with live-action actors in it. We were able to use the book it is based on to answer some of the questions.
Here is our review of Castle Explorer.