Art Project

This is Jeronimo's Maori art project (as mentioned in the notebook!). He chose different Maori symbols, and of course, the name "Joe", which was a last minute addition. A creative mix of traditional art with a bit of Jeronimo's character thrown in!

Jeronimo's Speech

Jeronimo presented his picture book as a speech yesterday.

Here he is practicing with me:
https://youtu.be/znd7fbuQ1J0

Here's the actual performance - not the best filming, sorry, because I was cueing Jeronimo with one hand:
https://youtu.be/3lir_uNN60g

Snow On The Hill - Jeronimo's Picture Book

Jeronimo has been working on his own adaptation of the picture book "Snow on the Hill" to present as a speech next week. It's not all coloured in yet, but here's how it looks at the moment:

Jeronimo has really enjoyed making this project, and has been working on his presentation, using the following steps:
1. Read the page.
2. Show the page to audience - wait for 5 seconds while they look at the artwork.
3. Turn the page. Repeat for all four pages.

Trying new things

This week Jeronimo had a go at learning how to drum, here's a video:

https://goo.gl/photos/SyaGkmTYLatzu63s6

It sounds a lot better in his headphones than it does in the video! With drumming, he learns hand-eye coordination, left-right brain development (sometimes called "cross brain coordination"), following instructions, and some music knowledge as well. He also has a lot of fun!

He worked on a 4-beat pattern, using his right hand on the hi-hat cymbal all 4 beats: 1, 2, 3, 4! 1, 2, 3, 4!
Then he brought his left hand in on the snare drum, just for beat 3: wait, wait, 3! wait. Wait, wait, 3! wait.
It's tricky to hit that 3 every time, but he did his best and kept improving.

We've also started some games to learn how to be patient while it's someone else's turn. The first game is "Memory", using pairs of Diego cards that we made.

We've also made a Snakes and Ladders game (but we've changed it to Waterslides and Pyramids) and played just once, but we need to wait for it to be laminated to play again.

Jeronimo is also working hard at doing his tasks without any help. He practices with his "stations", which are activities in trays on his desk. He takes the activity in a coloured folder out of the tray on the left and completes it. He puts in back in the folder and then into the tray on the right. Then he takes the coloured square from the front of the left tray and puts it on the right tray.

Jeronimo is doing very well with this, and enjoys the activities.

Jeronimo has fun and learns at the same time with all of these fun new experiences. It helps him settle and be focused on more straight-forward activities like maths, reading and writing.

Wig and Hat Day!

Jeronimo's green afro was a hit today! Here he is with me and my Mickey Mouse beanie in the music room:

Just after these photos were taken, Jeronimo had a good go on the drum kit. I'll be able to share that video soon, but not today.

Here is a maths exercise to help with columns:
http://www.tinytap.it/games/g1jh7/play/columns

Here are some

The Gardener's Maze

Here are some fragmented sentences that Jernomino used to describe pictures in the book. Each boxed phrase or word shows a piece that Jeronimo would say on its own:

Some of these phrases were offered immediately, others took some more help.

Jeronimo was then able to put the fragments together to write whole sentences:

Some Recent Work

Here are some things Jeronimo has done lately.

This is a picture of a car, with an original sentence written by Jeronimo. He even remembered to add the full-stop at the end, after the photo was taken. He called out "smiling!" as he drew the smile, and put a lot of thought into placement of the wheels. I think drew and rubbed out the last one at least six times before settling on the perfect spot.

Here are some fractions Jeronimo worked on. He wasn't paying attention at first, and wrote the question number as part of most answers. However, after I took the photo, I took out the red pen to mark his answers. Not wanting to be marked wrong, he quickly pushed the red pen away and had another go. As you'll see in his maths book, his second try was much better.

Banana Skin Video

I've uploaded Jeronimo's first video visual aid to his Youtube account. It's unlisted, but you can log into his account, or find it here:

https://youtu.be/ZwRNEWt18hU

There are some more videos in the works.

Cow Sentences.

Here are some sentences Jeronimo wrote about cows:

Jeronimo wrote a one-sentence story based on this image:

It was written first on a white board, and then typed out here:

https://docs.google.com/a/pinehill.school.nz/document/d/10AONrRh8RbDxHMrkNWMhs1V9dkkaP1bAwLDH4csdxho/edit?usp=sharing

We are working on sentences using this template: WHEN (At night time,) WHO (the teeny tiny truck) WHAT HAPPENED (is in the big car.)

Rows and Columns

Learning multiplication with rows and columns:

First, count the columns, then count the rows, lastly count the circles. This is how we learn multiplication from an array of columns and rows.

Max the Dog

Here is a picture of the story Jeronimo wrote after reading Max the Dog:

We have since talked about missing words like "is". We have also studied the work "stuck", sounding it out to correct it from "sauk" as Jeronimo has written.

Here is an exercise made from Jeronimo's story:
http://www.tinytap.it/games/g1jxq/play/jeronimos-max-story

Columns and Robots!

Here is a maths exercise to help with columns:
http://www.tinytap.it/games/g1jh7/play/columns

Here are some robot drawings. Jeronimo drew a leg of this one to make a robot with a group.

This is one he did on his own. Once he colours it in, it will go up on the wall.

Some maths exercises with pairs, groups, rows and columns.

First comes drawing the triangles.


Then circling pairs.


Then trying groups of three.

After groups, it's time to try organising them into groups of rows and columns. Here are two exercises of counting columns, shapes, and totals.

TinyTap Maths Games

Groups of Animals:
http://www.tinytap.it/games/g1is1/play/groups-of-animals

Pairs and Groups
http://www.tinytap.it/games/g1iru/play/pairs-and-groups