Pinterest

I loooooove this site! It's great for visual learners.

I use this for finding meal ideas, house ideas, hair styles, how to's, alternatives for GF recipes, nail art and of course teaching.

I've used it more recently looking for ANZAC art inspiration, (my latest search for ANZAC art found this ANZAC art).  I can create boards to organise my photos and label it accordingly. File away for later use if I stumble upon other great ideas/recipes/fashion/nail art/DIY. art

I will quite often embed links into my planning so I can refer to it (and when my tv screen is working, I can click on the link and the children can see what they are creating). 

After drawing our super hero self portrait art work, I've noticed that their drawings are quite primitive - who has stick arms and stick fingers? (well apart from Stickman!!)  Using Pinterest, I found some very good basic drawings of how to draw hair, eyes, mouths and noses.

Having some models up for the children helps the ones who say "I can't draw" also gives an expectation of what mouths, eyes and noses should look like.

I have been thinking of ways to help children recall and retain HFW.  Using what Neil MacKay said, children retain 80% more when two learning styles are used, I went on a little Pinterest hunt.

I have specific children in mind from the target group.  Other children might not need HFW reinforced but they are developing leadership skills as well as becoming more effective at explaining and listening.

hopscotch

Roll and Read

Read and Drive


http://workshops.sevenoaks.school.nz/neil-s-handout-materials

Individual Learning Goals

Today the children received their writing goal cards, after reviewing their writing samples and other pieces of work I found their next steps.

Because the writing groups are mixed ability some children have different goals.  Initially this was hard to juggle.  So using their latest piece of writing about camp together we went looking (being detectives) for evidence of their writing goal.  Some achieved it so they highlighted, others didn't (especially the ones who had to use talking in my writing) so using a green pen they edited and added talking with support from me to use speech marks correctly.

I have one as well, which is the class goal of adding more information/detail to my writing.

Next week I will continue to model how to use their writing goal cards.

Using pictures/icons below helps the children who have LD, also they look cute : )

On the flip side are varying levels of HFW or dictionaries, so come back to read about the spelling programme I use in my class.