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In our third Spanish lesson, we have been learning more greetings. We are using Spanish lessons with Paco. Main concepts covered today: Main [...]
Greetings #3 – Spanish
March 31, 2017 -
We are learning Spanish this year? In our second lesson, we have been learning more greetings. We are using Spanish lessons with Paco. Main [...]
Greetings #1 – Spanish
February 10, 2017 -
This term I’ve introduced my students to coding. I believe computer science should be part of our core curriculum, alongside other [...]
Coding in room 5
August 15, 2016 -
This week, our class will be participating in Maths Week. Maths Week is a premier mathematics event in the New Zealand school calendar gaining [...]
Maths Week at school
August 8, 2016
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We’ve been exploring our family trees together, students work out which descriptor best applies to which person on their family tree. Why [...]
Our family trees – Maori
August 4, 2016 -
In our Maori lessons we have been making up packs of whānau–whakapapa cards. Students have been playing Snap, Fish, and Pairs, matching the [...]
Learning about our Whānau–whakapapa
July 28, 2016 -
I’ve introduced the students to a real life problem solving activity – the Rubik’s Cube. I purchased five cheap cubes, to make [...]
Learning with a twist! – problem solving
June 15, 2016 -
On Friday, the World of Maths group visited the school. I’d organised their visit, and wanted to have as many students throughout the [...]
World of Maths
June 7, 2016
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In class today, we have been assessing our term one’s reading. Firstly, we self assessed our reading, then we had a peer assess our work. [...]
Self and peer assessment – reading
April 15, 2016 -
During topic lessons we have had to identify thinking tools that we could use to assess what an active learner might look like. Venn diagrams [...]
Venn diagrams – thinking tools
April 14, 2016 -
In our fifth Spanish lesson, we have been to discussing where we are from. We are using Spanish lessons with Paco. Main concepts covered today: [...]
Where are you from? #5 – Spanish
April 1, 2016 -
Today we were learning to sing Maori months of the year song. The video below will help you sing along.
Maori months of the year song
March 31, 2016
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The Maori vowels song, sung by senior school students at Kapiti Primary School.
Maori Vowels Song
March 24, 2016 -
Today we were learning to sing the tena koe greetings song. The video below will help you sing along.
Tena koe – maori greeting song
March 10, 2016 -
The NZmaths website provides teachers and students with access digital learning objects to support their learning in mathematics. Click on the [...]
Digital Learning Objects – Mathematics
February 26, 2016 -
Today we were learning to sing the Maori vowels song – Ahaka ma The video below will help you sing along. and another video to help too.
Ahaka ma – maori vowel song
February 25, 2016
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It’s very important that students have an audience for their work, that is wider than the teacher. Today, in class, students were sharing [...]
Sharing our learning, it’s all positive
February 22, 2016 -
In our third Spanish lesson, we have been learning more greetings. We are using Spanish lessons with Paco. Main concepts covered today: Main [...]
Greetings #3 – Spanish
February 19, 2016 -
In class, we’ve been learning about how to write compound sentences. A compound sentence consists of two or more main clauses, each of [...]
What is a compound sentence?
February 18, 2016 -
We are learning Spanish this year? In our second lesson, we have been learning more greetings. We are using Spanish lessons with Paco. Main [...]
Greetings #2 – Spanish
February 12, 2016
