Both myself and Mrs Forge (our lovely Librarian) were excited to see the students using the Library with so much enthusiasm. I loved seeing all the books out on the desks and listening to the quiet discussion about what they have learnt.
Following on from all my learning about UDL at ULearn,(the conference I attended over the holidays), I have introduced a few new things into the class.
1. Daily Goals for myself and the students. I introduce them at the beginning of the day and then we reflect on them at the end. If it is a difficult goal that we don't feel we have achieved we revisit it until we achieve it.
2. Traffic Lights. The students now have a traffic light sign in front of the desks with a little velcro car that can move to each colour light. Red means - Please help me Mrs Hay - I am stuck. Yellow means, I am going to give it a go, but when you have a moment please come and check I am on the right track. Green means I am all systems GO, no worries here.
Creative Ten - I have introduced ten minutes, once a week for a creative challenge. This week we made woven fish - Ok we attempted to make them, we need more than 10 minutes for this, ha ha.
My favourite part of this week however, was catching up with some students who have left our class to go and live overseas. The whole class chatted with Ray in Manilla, Philippines on Wednesday via Google+, it was awesome. Poor Ray, we woke him up at 5am, but I am sure it was well worth it for him to catch up with his whole class. Then we received an email from Charlotte in Australia that same day so we read her email over the projector and everyone sent her an email in return. We are going to try and set up a skype date with Charlotte sometime in the next few weeks.
This week we also participated in #Connected Rotorua - Pass the Blog. Check out our addition to this page:http://connectedrotoruaschools.blogspot.co.nz/2014/10/p2-mokoia-intermediate.html.
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