We all have heritage languages apart from English. Some of us are fluent in these languages, some can say a bit, and some are aware that our parents speak something different to us. Our languages are important.
We wrote Puppy Trouble in English over a number of days.
We took our stories home.
Our families helped us to translate our stories.
We recorded our stories using as much of our heritage language as we could.

Those of us who are quite new to English had a big advantage and could translate without the help of our parents.

We will write another story soon.
Hopefully some of us will be able to use more of our heritage language in our next recording.

Ms Ouida sent Ms Finikin some Japanese masks from Japan.

We did a unit about masks.

We each chose a mask and added to its design.
We wrote character profiles.
We wrote plays.
We recorded the plays.

Here is our work.

This is Ms Finikin’s edit. Some of us have asked to be able to do our own edits.

Although we were reading a book about breaking eggs, we somehow got talking about the monsters under our beds. Ms Finikin assures us that the monsters will not be as scary when we are adults because we will realise they are not real. We wrote about our monsters and drew them. Here are some of them.

We watched the first two lectures Kermit the Frog ever gave back in 1969.

We recreated what we saw.

Look what I can do.

Tomorrow it will be my job to teach it to the group.

It is tomorrow.

Teaching is hard.

I have been teaching Ms Finikin about planes.

They have pilots, passengers, propellers, towers, and runways.

Here are some of our stories from our Easter 2023 holidays.

We spent the last five minutes of each of our lessons on Friday, March 17 taking a load each down to our new room. It was mostly ready when we got to school on Monday. Here are our reflections on our new room. Our new art works will follow.

We enjoy teaching each other how to draw different things.
We think it is fun and don’t always realise we are practicing giving and receiving instructions, asking for clarification, and speaking confidently.
We make sure Ms Finikin writes our names into her planning so she won’t forget we are going to spend the last few minutes of our lessons doing the teaching.

Ms Finikin teaches lots of things.

Here are some photos of us using our memories to reproduce a picture we were shown.

Here we are buddy reading a book about celebrations.

Here we are responding to the book Jack’s Road.