Kei Tua o te Pae
Kei Tua o te Pae/Assessment for Learning: Early Childhood Exemplars is a best-practice guide that will help teachers continue to improve the quality of their teaching.
The exemplars are a series of books that will help teachers to understand and strengthen children's learning. It also shows how children, parents and whānau can contribute to this assessment and ongoing learning.
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While the children were working in the carpentry area, someone started singing “Bob the Builder, Can We Fix It?” This sparked an impromptu music session, and it didn’t take long before we got the tape deck out and had it blasting out the Bob the Builder song. Fe‘ao was boogying away and singing while he constructed his horse. It was great fun! He added the sheepskin ears and decided to use bottle tops for eyes.
When he was showing Jane how his horse worked, its ears fell off. Fe‘ao returned to…
Child's name: Fred
Date: 27 June
Teacher: Karen
Examples or cues
A Learning Story
Belonging
Mana whenua
Taking an Interest
Finding an interest here – a topic, an activity, a role. Recognising the familiar, enjoying the unfamiliar. Coping with change.
Fred came with his mum to his IP meetings today.
We put Fred's videotape on to celebrate Fred's progress with his IP team.
Fred's second story on the tape was about some writing he had done in a book. When the story came…
Child: William
Teacher: Jo
22 November
William’s map drawing is amazing! We sat down together and looked at the map that is on the wall at our kindergarten. I asked William if he knew where the kindergarten is on the map. He wasn’t too sure so I showed him Garnet Road and where the kindergarten is. He said to me, “You know where my house is, aye Jo. You have been to my house.” I confirmed this and we then looked on the map to see where William’s house is. We looked at all of the roads and I a…
Child: Jessica
Teacher: Anne
Date: 29 April – 16 May
Jessica began sketching with enthusiasm, and with great experimentation. She played with the koru pattern by connecting it in an interesting way. She even added spirals in the writing of her name.
Her sketching also includes pictures that have meaning for her, i.e., a person and a house. Her black and white painting is a reflection of her sketch, as is her final PVA picture.
A few days later her mother showed me a fascinating drawing that…
Today Vinny asked me if he could take a photo of the Thomas the Tank Engine book 11. I asked Vinny why he wanted to take a photo and he told me that he really liked to take photos. We know this because of all of the photos that Vinny takes. Together we downloaded the photos and then Vinny chose the rainbow as the font colour for his name and he wrote it, and then he chose the colour pink to go around his photos.
Then it was Vinny’s turn to type.
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Vinny is learning to use technol…
Child's name: Tayla
Date: August
Teacher: Vicki
Examples or cues
A Learning Story
Belonging
Mana whenua
Taking an Interest
Finding an interest here – a topic, an activity, a role. Recognising the familiar, enjoying the unfamiliar. Coping with change.
While we were sitting at the collage table busily pasting and cutting, Kupu calls out “matt time.” Tayla quickly gets up and walks to the entrance and calls:
"Haere mai ki te Whāriki."
She turns to me and give me the bigge…
13 December
Skye discovered the large box on the platform. She climbed inside, fitting perfectly. She sat upright, peering out through the transparent scarf. She poked her head out and smiled at me. I smiled back, saying “Boo!” Skye went back inside. Michael was sitting beside the box. Skye poked her head out and said “Boo!” to Michael. Then she went back inside the box. She did this over and over with Michael, laughing and smiling.
Interpretation and analysisThis activity portrays enclosure s…
Short-term reviewWhat precious pictures – Fe‘ao enjoying books.
Fe‘ao is showing a strong interest in reading books. He is reading books from the pictures and engaging in rich dialogue with his friends, discussing the pictures and putting forward his ideas. (“Te Whāriki”, Exploration, goal 3.2)
Fe‘ao is developing early literacy skills. He has an expectation that words and books can amuse, delight, inform, and excite. (“Te Whāriki”, Communication, goal 3.4)
From reading your Parent’s voices a…
Child: Zachary
Title: Writing the café story
Teacher: Robyn
Date: 26 July
A learning storyZachary knows that Kerri has a story about his café to write. He has been waiting for days. He has been on a big café theme and he knew that Kerri had taken photographs and made notes.
On Wednesday he said to me, “I am waiting for Kerri to write my café story.” I checked with Kerri and she said that she had promised Zachary that she would write it on Friday afternoon. Zachary knew that Kerri would be…
Jack enjoys doing puzzles. He will search them out until he finds them and will spend relatively long periods of time working at completing them. The stacker puzzle remains Jack’s favourite puzzle.
The stacker puzzleJack searched out the stacker puzzle, which was on the middle shelf. He took it down and made a noise to get attention.
Jack took the puzzle pieces off. He looked up to see if anyone was watching. He smiled and continued to put the puzzle pieces on the baseboard.
Jack shows great…
Alex at the beach, writing in her notebookTeacher: Robyn
When we were at the beach, I noticed Alex busy writing in her notebook. She was totally absorbed in the task, standing on her own and writing. She even had her pencil with her – she had come prepared!
The next day, Alex was looking at the photo of her writing at the beach. She said that she had been writing about the long steps there. She decided to make another book the same size, and she drew a picture in it of the steps and the fl…
On the first two days, I asked Fe‘ao if he would like to work on his book some more. I wanted to let Fe‘ao know that it was his decision because it was his special creation. However, after the second day, I didn’t have to ask Fe‘ao anymore. He would come up to me and ask, “Can we do my cloud book, now?”, “Where is my cloud book?”, or “Can I take my cloud pictures home now?”
The cloud book will be ready to read today. Fe‘ao can share his great creation with his family and friends. I look forward…
Child: Joshua
Teacher: Chrissy
A learning storyJoshua peered over my shoulder as I read the book The Icky Sticky Frog.21 The plot involves the frog spotting his hapless prey and then slurping them up with his long, sticky tongue. Near the end of the story, the frog spots a butterfly. However, this time, instead of the frog eating his quarry, a fish gulps down the frog. Joshua looked at the last picture for a while and then he said, “The butterfly is smiling.”
“Mmm,” I agreed. “Why do you thin…
Fish March (4 years)
Ray has learned to draw nice, straight lines and nice triangles. He drew two triangles first and they looked like fish, so he drew in eyes. He drew another one and another one. Fish, fish, fish. Ben came along and said, “If you draw lines here, it will look more like fish.” Ray tried, and it did look better. He added fins and a lot more fish.
What’s happening here?
Ray’s family has contributed a story about Ray’s drawing at home. It includes his older brother Ben giving ad…
