These four words have been chosen by my co-teacher Pru to reflect Year 5 2010, we are using them extensively in our PDH program and they define our approach to much of what we are trying to achieve. As I lay in bed last night trying to sleep on my lumpy camp mattress and pillow […]
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Questions, questions, questions. Questions from teacher to student and student to teacher are to my mind at the core of life in the classroom. Big questions, little questions, fat questions, […]
Wednesday – The hump day, a not quite halfway through the week kind of a day. A day when the weekend still seems far away. There are many famous quotes […]
I read this on Twitter a few days ago and it immediately struck a chord with me. “3x a week take 15min playing with new digi tool, 1x a wk […]
All teachers plan and program to the best of their abilities. They try to prepare engaging and exciting lessons and to plan interesting learning opportunities. After all engaged and interested […]
Testing in the Primary classroom – NAPLAN
It’s National Assesment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) week here in Australia. For those of you overseas what this has meant for my class is the following: On Tuesday they had a 40 minute language test of grammar and spelling, followed by a 50 minute narrative writing test. On Wednesday they took a 50 minute reading comprehension test. And today, […]