Morning Rotations

We are getting back into the swing of things at school, which means we are back doing morning rotations. This system is set up so students participate in Te Reo Māori, Typing, Handwriting or Spelling for the first 15 minutes of their day. 

Students rotate around the senior teachers in the order of John>Jenny>Nik>Nicola, starting at their basegroup teacher on Tuesdays. 

Te Reo Māori

John runs a ‘booster’ session that compliments and reminds students of learning in Te Reo Māori from Thursday’s full lesson. We are currently looking at how to ask what others are doing and to reply to this question.  In order to do this we are learning many new verbs.  Next we will be looking at saying the same things but in the past and future tenses. 

Typing

Students work through the Typing.com lessons which helps them to increase their speed and accuracy when using a computer. 

Handwriting

Nik takes students through a few sentences with the focus of forming letters correctly and making our work presentable.

Spelling

Nicola supports students to practice their spelling words. During the week, students test one another on their words (or an adult will help) and then they generate new lists. New words are either taken from the students writing book, the essential word list or from phonics that they are learning. Words on the essential word list make up about 75% of writing, so they are very important.

Spelling words are posted on Seesaw. If you would like to practise spelling at home you can use these activities.