Running Records

Running Records are done frequently to help me guide my teaching, make sure children are reading books at the appropriate level and help support my teacher judgement.

Writing about Whanau

In my writing class we spent sometime writing about our whanau. Students were encouraged to bring in a picture of their family (micro and macro) to share. We then spent sessions writing about different people in our families, ie: who lives in our house, our cousins, other special people.
This came about as I originally asked the students what they wanted to write about  (in Term 1) and they said cousins.

Buddy Reading

 Students are set up with a buddy to read with (they are done on ability ie: more able with someone not as strong).
 The students have to take turns reading each other a book from their reading folders.

Teacher Only Day Rehua Marae

Attend personal development for our Teacher Only day on Tuesday 6th June

Phonics Test

I wasn't confident my Lion phonics group had their middle vowel CV words sorted (but I had moved onto Yolanda Soryl Stage 5). I gave all of them a test; write a silly sentence using 11 cvc words with a range of middle vowels.
The average mark only came back at 6/11. Decided that they don't have this mastered. Stop doing stage 5 Yolanda Soryl and bring back to Stage 4 with a wider range of follow up CVC word activities.

Change up reading groups to suit needs

Week 5 I realised my reading groups weren't working (some students needs weren't being meet). Split 4 groups into 5 (introduce an early red group). Spend time looking at a range of factors to split these groups ie: reading engagement, letter sound knowledge, how many sight words each child had etc.