Invited Jack our Chinese student to come work in room 8. He is working around the school. The children have enjoyed the language experience and language lessons. They are also gaining insight into another culture other than their own. As Chinese is the fastest growing language we are fortunate to have him in our school.
Term 1 2015
Added pages of high interest and gadjets to room 8 blog. Such as:
RE, Literacy, Maths, Photos, Gala Update, House Information. I have adde relevant information in these pages and will keep this updated.
This is so parents can quickly reference information and view updated photos of various activities their child is doing in room 8.
Also added a language translation gadjet for our many ELL learners and parents of.
Term 1 Early Words PD
Attended Yolanda Soryl course on Early words. There is another edition of the programme coming out this year.
Yolanda spoke of the importance to keep it child driven and to start at probe where the child is at.
She said there should be an order to teach HFW for early learners.
To reinforce learning with games of 'snap' 'ladder' 'timer on for reading words' .
The child must be able to match words, pictures to be successful on EW .
The best way to learn words is by sight. Some words have to be instant.
(a is in the mum..)because they can't all be sounded out. Hold up the card get the child to say it loud-builds confidence in reader.
See Say Touch-get them to track the word card and touch it too.Visual memory is used and needed for word recognition of basic words.Keep words on black and white not too much colour it is a distraction.
Excellent fast, to the point seminar delivered what i had to ask. Some correlations to RR - such as a precise, systematic way to teach and get big results.
Term 3 2014
GLOBALISATION CONCEPT:
Our globalisation Concept allowed me to introduce and celebrate the differences in culture just in our class. We invited families to bring and share/show their ethnic foods or pictures of to share with the class.
The children found the concept a bit of a stretch but did understand that different countries have traditional dishes.
Some children wanted to try them and some did not. But they all got some opportunity to look and taste some different foods.
ROTORUA INTERMEDIATE VISIT:
I organised for three classes to visit RI school science lab.
Here we got to look at and trial simple experiments to cater to the chns understanding of heating, cooling, and changes of state.
Most of the chn in room 10 had a strong interest in this in class so I took the opportunity to arrange a visit to a real lab, to extend their interest.
The intermediate chn helped and showed the class several experiments., that catered to their interest and their level of understanding science concepts at this age.
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