Fraction Activities

Fraction Activities




Fraction Art

Introduction to Fractions for Kids

Paper Straw Tulip

ICT Skills - Blogging tips

Aren't they a good looking bunch!

Here are some pointers for blogging that will help you:

1. Always make one idea = 1 post. Then use labels effectively, this will ensure your blog is searchable and filterable in different ways.
2. You can create a link using a label category - click a label you want to link to, then notice the URL says /search/label/name of label in it
3. You can take this a step further by combining labels into a search, below...

<blog-URL>/search/?q=label:LABEL1+label:LABEL2

Inquiry into Practice - Going Deeper

How might we go deeper in order to investigate how our students can be better learners?

Process

1. Spend some time on the focussing stage - use whatever tools you wish - to go deeper into understanding the needs/problems/challenges of your students in writing. Make sure you identify if you have any limiting beliefs or preconceptions, the language you use either out loud, or in your head are key aspects to notice.
2. Decide on what is most important to work on and how. Brainstorm some strategies for how you might go about this.
3. Trial and test, play and explore. Reflect and record

Refer to p.34-35 of NZC as you do this. Record these as individual reflections at each stage, for each person.

References:
Blog post 1 - Craig/Rob
Blog post 2 - Judy-Anne
Blog post 3 - Steve

Great Resource - Science Unit Plans - Judy-Anne

Science Unit Planshttps://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/2269-unit-plans-for-primary-teachers

TBCS - Craig - Voice Typing Trial - Something I Love

I decided to try to increase engagement in Writing by getting the students to write about a subject of their choice.

I asked the students to find a photo of something they loved and write me paragraph about why they loved it, using complete sentences.

The next writing period, I introduced them to voice typing to allow them to put more ideas down on screen and excite them about the process. 

The intent was to give them a tool to get their thoughts down quickly and completely and help reluctant writers to enjoy the process and to begin to allow their creativity to flow and not be hampered by the writing process.

It was a messy lesson and it ended up being about experimenting with microphones etc.

They were very impressed when I said full stop and it did!

Where to next.

Use this to cement the show where full stops live and to get the students to think and speak in sentences.

Try to engender excitement and engagement with Writing.

I will blogg results as time goes by...

• 4  Effectively incorporating digital media into the learning environment.
• 6  Use of relevant resources
• 6  Monitoring of ākonga learning during the implementation of a programme of learning, so that the programme can be adapted where needed to better achieve desired outcomes for ākonga.
• 6  Using appropriate pedagogies to accelerate progress of ākonga who are achieving below national expectations.

Learner Agency - Steve - 16 April 2018 - Reflection

Learner Agency: next step have this articulated by the students and look at different methods of presentation. Opening the learning up to their options? Could this be done by other groups of students? Options for video, audio etc?

Seesaw continue developing audio explanations.

SAMR

This example of learning shows the stage of augmentation.

The use of technology to show one example of a strategy that has two examples using different learning styles and then having a peer utilise that example and transfer it into another style of learning or strategy and then transfer that back to the original medium, while sharing between more than one person.
Next level would be video and or audio of the process and dialogue, using links to alternative options, or resetting the task without the parameters.

Great Resource - Research Northwest Tree Dwelling Octopus

This website is a spoof site which teaches the importance of checking the veracity of information online - it's brilliant. Suitable for older than about year 4

https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

Great Resource - If Punctuation had Sounds

Click here

TBCS - Craig - Reflection - Start of Day 2 PLD

Yesterday

Yesterday went well. I got to try lots of things and feel more comfortable with the Blogg reflection process.

It was great spending time together and to encourage each other in our skills and thinking.

I was inspired to use pictures and captions to help get reluctant writers to get started using complete sentences as captions...

Knowing how to move files is really helpful.

Creating the Google form for using with the learning register was fantastic and will help us and especially Judy-Anne.

The talk and presentations around Learner Agency were helpful and it was great to be able to turn that into a blogg.

I was also helpful to know how to put a slide show onto blogger.

Where to today?

I want to know how to set up a class drive and individual drives when the letter to parents takes effect.

I want to know how to use Google Docs more effectively with my students to raise their Writing outcomes
including auto corrections etc.

Also how to know when using technology is making a true difference in my teaching.

Reflection - Rob

What's on top for me...
I thought you all did really well yesterday - it was a day of lots of new skills, quite 'heady thinking' around learner agency and looking at school systems. The biggest areas of progress from my perspective related to:

1. Learner Agency - you are doing some great work on deepening this.
2. Digital Skills - Google Forms, Sheets, Team Drives, Document formatting, Blogger (labelling, 
3. Introduction to the SAMR model - to help you decide the quality/depth of the learning outcomes students are producing.

I have a couple of questions in my head today:

1. How might you use the rubric for Learner Agency with your classes so they can delve into what it is, how to grow it, etc.?
2. How do you know the outcomes your students are producing are quality? 
3. How might you unpack what inquiry into practice is so that it is useful, relevant, manageable for your school?

Reflection Day One PLD - Steve - 17 April 2018

Hi points - interaction and sharing of ideas, processes , presentations and seeing how we all have different ways of achieving the same goal.
Functions I can use. Potential for using the blog, also tidied up labels to be clearer. Learner agency update as to not just students but our impact.
Positive way of including photos.
The Blog has way more impact by the simple adding of a picture. Keep this in mind for recording.
Teaching Standards: what works.
Teacher reflection