Jack and the Beanstalk with Mote

The wonderful Megan has been busy making pieces to support our focus on Fairy Tales. These stories follow a fiction storyline sequence that helps teach students how a story flows.

A few weeks ago, Amie from Manaiakalaani showed me how to use Mote. It records short snippets of thinking. I have used Mote to record students thinking about what they thought might happen next in the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Here is what we did...

Heggarty Structured Literacy

 I thought it would be timely to show you what we have been doing in class with Structured Literacy. This procedure is done every day. It is designed to develop phonological awareness. That is, to be able to discern the sounds in words. Here is an example...

Snippets of the Term

So many wonderful things have happened this term. Our STEAM play-based time has been absolutely pumping with creativity, imagination, and interaction. Math has been full of sharing, discussion, and puzzling...and so much more!

 

Swimming with Confidence at the Olympic Pools

Not the best weather, but such a great day of bonding!

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2021 - Back to School

The year is well and truly underway but with Covid19 on my mind, I decided to take time out from Blogging. I guess I feared that if I started up again that I would somehow provoke another Lockdown. 

Now I'm feeling good about the year...here we go!!!