Diary as a reflection

I'm encouraged by what I read on BH's blog http://leading-learning.blogspot.com/ to reflect on my classwork. Kind of like a diary about what has been happening ,especially with my kids learning. In no particular order:

We have been doing water in science - just little experiments. We have mixed white material from the kitchen -salt. sugar etc with water to see what might dissolve. It was great to predict what might happen, then observe what really happened, then record our results.

Next we froze some water and notice that the water expanded when it froze. We tried several ways to melt the water and made decisions about what was the quickest.

For art and science we are doing fish. They loved the virtual dissection. For art we are doing Hundewasser fish. I will post a photo when we have finished.

We sometimes mind some big kids when school can't get relievers and our class look on this as a postive experience as the big kids help with oral language, teaching games etc.

No Blogging

I haven't blog for a few days -why? I want to reflect on that and post a blog about it. I want to get the kids one going better but I havent even done that because I have forgotten how to get rid of a mistake.

Something good that has happened though is that I found my VERY first photostory I made -about Kikorangi coming to school and the kids LOVED it and asked could they make one too. Sometimes with new learning I forget about some of the good old stuff. So maybe the kids blog can just go on the back burner for a while and we'll collect our photos for a new photo story.

ICT use

I am going to list some of the ICT stuff I have done over the past 2 days

Joined our school inquiry wiki and successfully posted my Science PP. also looked at other peoples presentations.

Been on to J's class wiki and used her children's voice to help me learn about Thinking Buddies.

Made comments on 2 other blogs including a rambling about why I blog.

Used my GD's class blog to show my class a virtaul dissection of a fish -as a motivation for our science unit on water.

Made a time with LW to learn more about blogging.

Been on to both my personal and class blog.

Used my IWB for learning in Maths, reading, science, singing. (I am just getting my pens sorted out and then I will be really away.

Read my emails and replied where needed.

Day 1

I really enjoyed Room 20 kids today. C and Jo came in to set up our IWB so we can really get into it. Some great inquiry sharing today - more things to help me to learn. I have done the feedback sheet for R. The wiki being set up for sharing sounds great - I hope I can stick on my Science PP. I am going to book a blogging session with LW so I can jazz up my classblog and involve the kids more.

kikorangi

Our little blue peguin has really disappeared but because I want to do the travel buddy experience with my new class I am going to get a twin. I am also going to get back into classblogmeister with my new class and work hard at making it look good. Its great that LW has put up some of the clusters blogs to motivate us.My grandaughter knows how to do blogging so I will ask her to help me.

Staff meeting

Today we had the beginning of our staff sharing about our goals. BOY some people have so much to share -what a lot of talent we have at OPS. I just know my own learning has so far to go but at the same time I know I have people who can help me continue with my own learning. Also there was a soul searching email from LW and I responded to it.

slide

I have made a slide show, but can't work out how to get it onto this blog. If anyone knows can they help please.

I see on my grandaughter's class blog that they use it frequently to share school events. I have been playing with the digital camera over the holidays and I still find it one of the best ICT tools around. It's just that I want to do more with the photos and then I want the kids at school to use it more - to help their learning and to share that learning.

I am going to use some of my holiday photos in my blog -this is Tapacat.