Week 8 Term 2, 2013

This week has gone really fast as I have only had three days in my classroom. The children have been pretty good considering they had a reliever in.

I have made a few changes to the layout of my classroom just to make it easier and more accessible for everyone involved.

Daily 5 this week went good; the children are starting to get the hang of being independent although there is still a lot of work to be done. On Thursday I had Mary the RLit advisor came in and she did a modelling session with my lower reading group (red) and it was really good to observe the children working with her – I found they responded really well to her. She gave me a few ideas to use and gave the students a game to help them build their word knowledge.

For Daily 5 I have also given students a new seating option. I got the idea of Pintrest and though it would be another way of them utilising the space we have in our classroom.

 

New seating position.

I have just started my fractions unit for Maths and its quite fun however they children don’t have a great knowledge on it. Instead of doing a hot spot game each day we focused on creating a fraction window where I used the window pens and we brainstormed about each fraction. I then set children the task of going home and finding out the Maori and Indian (I have three Indian speaking children in my class) translation of the words. Pretty much all the class raced in on Friday to tell me these so it was really cool to see them getting engaged.

Window display (sorry a bit hard to see).

I also have put my groups up on the wall with their WALT and SC for the week just so they are seeing it more often.

Group WALT & SC.

This weekend I am starting my reports which are a first for me so it will be interesting to see how I go.