Month

February 2016

Competition in Our Classroom

One of the best ways that we have found to engage our boys has been through competition. Who can come up with the most interesting sentence? Who can come up with the most interesting fact about the number 46? These… Continue Reading →

A Creepy 100 Word Challenge

This week’s 100 Word Challenge is a bit on the creepy side! Remembering what we have learned about making our writing the best it can be, please create a 100 work piece of writing and post it as a comment… Continue Reading →

Setting Goals

Setting regular and specific goals is an important part of being successful with our learning. We have been working hard on creating goals this week along with planning the steps we need to take to achieve them. We are still… Continue Reading →

Learning About Learning

As each school year begins we spend a reasonable amount of time getting to know each other and establishing our routines and organisational structures for the year ahead. A class becoming a ‘well oiled’ learning team is an essential part… Continue Reading →

Having an Improvement Headset

One of our ongoing focusses is with students developing an improvement headset. Quite often we hear comments like “That’ll do… I’m done” when we ‘d prefer to be hearing “I think I can make that better by… “. This isn’t… Continue Reading →

A Muddy 100 Word Challenge

Many of the students in our class have expressed that they don’t like to write. One of the writing strategies we are using to encourage more writing is to have a go at lots of regular short writing tasks. One… Continue Reading →

© 2024 — Powered by WordPress

Theme by Anders NorenUp ↑

Skip to toolbar