Arty Farty Friday

Today we celebrated our surroundings by creating art that features mountains and the sea. We used vivid for the outlines and experimented with mixing dye for the bright colours.

 

 

Developing an Attitude of Gratitude

We have been given a lovely Thank You Resource Kit by Creatrix (www.thecreatrix.co.nz) so we have been discussing what it means to be grateful.

The kit supplies Thank You cards which we have written to people to show our gratitude. We talked about being specific.

 

This lovely book also comes with the resource.

 

 

TONGAN LANGUAGE WEEK 2015

Malo e lelei. Last week (Week 7), we celebrated Tongan Language Week. We practised greeting each other in Tongan, learnt some basic Tongan words, and created some fabulous art inspired by Tongan Tapa cloth. Tapa cloths are very important in the Tongan culture and are made for a variety of purposes such as weddings, other celebrations, and funerals. Check out our amazing work!

 

We had a real tapa cloth as an example

 

 

Peta used the internet to research different examples

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peta, along with our Pasifika Group, performed at the Library, Glen Warren Kindergarten, Little Wonders, and our school assembly. A talented bunch indeed!

 

Malie- good job everyone.

 

African Inspired Art!

Today we looked at African line art and had a go of our own! We noticed that African art is very bright and colourful, and the clothing has lots of different patterns.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WE'RE ALL ABOUT GROWTH MINDSET!!!

As mentioned in an earlier post, we have started learning about developing a growth mindset  to help us be the best learners we can be! We have come up with some ways to develop a growth mindset, effective praise (the teacher can give) to develop a growth mindset (because who learns anything from "good job"?!) and ways toe develop a growth mindset in maths. Check it out! BECAUSE HOW YOU THINK = HOW YOU LEARN!

 

 

DEVELOPING A GROWTH MINDSET

AT ST JOSEPH’S SCHOOL

 

INSTEAD OF THINKING… (FIXED MINDSET)	WE CAN THINK… (GROWTH MINDSET)
I can’t do this	I can achieve success
This is too hard	I’m going to give this my all
I hate maths	I’m going to train my brain to learning in maths
I’m so good at this	I’m going to challenge myself to extend my learning
I’m finished my work	How can I progress even further?
I don’t want to do this	This is difficult, but I can learn and I can succeed
They are so much better/ smarter than me	What can I learn from them to achieve success?

 

EFFECTIVE PRAISE FOR DEVELOPING

 GROWTH MINDSET

YOU HAVE WORKED VERY HARD ON THAT

I CAN SEE YOU HAVE USED DIFFERENT STRATEGIES TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM

YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK

YOU HAVE BEEN PRACTICING

YOU SHOULD BE PROUD OF YOUR HARD WORK

YOU ARE WORKING HARD TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS

YOU ARE WORKING HARD TO MAKE PROGRESS/ IMPROVEMENTS

THAT LOOKS INTERESTING, TELL ME ABOUT THAT

I LIKE THE WAY YOU HAVE…

 

 

DEVELOPING A GROWTH MINDSET IN MATHS

INSTEAD OF… (FIXED MINDSET)	TRY THINKING… (GROWTH MINDSET)
I can’t do division	I know I can train my brain to learn division
I don’t like fractions	I find fractions challenging but I know I can achieve success
This problem is too hard	This is going to take some time and effort
I don’t get it	I will try a different strategy
I’ll never learn all my times tables	Learning my times tables is challenging but achievable
I’m not good at maths	I learn from my mistakes and look for ways to improve