Toolkit Term 2 Screencastify

Toolkit Term 2 Te Reo Māori for the Classroom: Matariki

Great idea to embed Matariki into our Sciences, like water, rain and gardening. Need to find out if we are to use the 7 stars or the nine stars?

Teacher Only Day - Cultural Competency & Kahui Ako Visioning

 

Toolkits Term 1 2023

The Code

 We had Jenny come in and go through the code with us.  She shared some resources with us and we shared what we do within the school as well.

Middle Leaders

 

Louise Demspsey Phonics

 Make sure you have small group instruction.  You can do whole class but follow up in small group sessions.

Clusters instead of calling blends.

Stages

Stage 2 & 3

Free game you can use online.

Can use the first sound or even the last sound.

Stage 4

Make sure that kids know their vowels.  You can download this from the Yolanda Sorrel's site.

Full Circle Game

Stage 5

Make sure you slow down with this stage spend time on learning this.

Wa rule info

Ideas for teaching sounds.

Ideas to reinforce split digraphs. Make bake and change it to make.

Good rule to teach the children. Children really need to understand the vowels.  Rules are up on the youtube site.

This is an example of a full circle game. https://www.ictgames.com/

Stage 6

Nice idea to use poems to look for prefixs and suffixes.

Introduce root words to students as this can help them learn word meanings.