Diary

What did we do this week?

had a great conversation about what good readers and writers do. We made a chart for the class and we will revisit this regularly.

I read Sheena Camerons work and next week I am going to be a lot better at doing before,during and after reading work.

Our fish art looked great (get some photos)

We are going to be doing some work about the seasons- lots of language can come from this.

I remembered my class is only 5 or 6 so we did some work on animals mothers and babies.

Pepe the baby penguin went missing -'apparently" he hid in A. lunch box and ended up at her place. Earlier in the week T wrote a story about kikorangi and Pepe going to netball. Both P and T received a principals award and their names in the school newsletter.

Science

The other morning it was really foggy and frosty. I took some photos of the fog early on my arrival to school so we can do some scientific discussion about what fog is. Unfortunately it had all disappeared by the time the kids arrived at school. Never mind, the frost was still there and through observation the kids worked out the sun had melted the frost as there was still frost where the shade was. I like using the digital camera.

Another Blogger

LW as given me WW's blog to have a look at. I like what I read -I feel

that her blog is about life , not just school stuff. I hope she picks up my comment and replies to me. My IWB is going well and the little kids love writing their name and using the stamper. Room 8 kids are working on setting up some early morning IWB activities for us. Kids being teachers again.

I have been asking my class what do good readers and writers do. Later I will record their comments. Its great to hear them saying about reading and writing being connected.

Photo

I am posting this photo just because I like it. I wish I had done that project where you put in a photo you like each day. I had a burst of doing photos that show learning -especially ones where children are using ICT to help with the learning.

Science

I went on to http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/ and saw the photo of the lucky 13 teachers who got to start their science fellowship. It also had the science facility they were working with. I was so jealous. I have been in contact with John A. from RS and he said that he will sort out things with AD from Scion soon. I still really want to do the fellowship - probably even more now when I am seeing more and more the value of science in a junior classroom.

Here is Traci predicting which white kitchen substances might dissolve in water - before she tested them.

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.