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.

Clay Words: Learning about Word Families

Clay Words: Making Word Families

We have been making word families out of clay to reinforce some of the spelling rules.  It is a creative way to embed some of the things that we find difficult.  Danny and Perry have been helping us learn how to do it.

Learning about the past tense……..

Nicola's Literacy class has been busy!!

This week in Nicola's literacy class we have been super busy! One group has done a play about animals. For spelling we have made silly sentences and drawn our words on the chalkboard.

Some of our sentences: (By Oto and Charlie)

I stoked the bright red fire when we went to the dark forest.

A tall bloke walked past me and shouted, "hi, I like pie".

A have green eggs on toast for my breakfast, what a great start to the day.

A train killed me last Monday morning on the way to school. I was brought back to life by Arthur.

A play about animals from Matariki on Vimeo.