Week 5 - OHHHHH where did that one go???

This week has kind of passed in a blur.  It was a busy one, with lots happening.  I must say that when I started loosing my voice on Tuesday/Wednesday, I was sooooo not impressed.  By Friday I only had a whisper, and my own family thought it was hilarious.  This meant that the children were lucky to have a very cool reliever for Friday.  Thanks Mrs S!!!

I wanted to share however a very cool I had as a teacher this week.
As you parents who came to our parent evening are aware our class is very driven by individual goals children have within key learning areas e.g. they have goals in reading, writing and maths.  Well on Thursday I needed to get the children to complete a "writing sample" (a formal writing assessment where they are not allowed any assistance from myself or books ...).  Well the kids have gotten so into looking at their goals and their "pink for think", "blue to do", "gold for glory" comments that after writing their name at the top of the sheet, a number of children went to their books to check their goals and see what they needed to practice/think about...

It was a very OHHHHH moment where you know that the effort you put into working these out with the kids was worth it because they are beginning to use them without being asked.  Thanks guys.

For those parents who weren't able to attend the parent meeting ... I am hoping to be able to put the slideshow up on here that I went though (I was a bit worried that I wouldn't have a voice so it ended up being pretty detailed).  So watch this space.

typing link

Check out our new educational website link ... a fun game for kids to practice their typing skills.

Parent evening

A big thank you to all parents and grandparents who came along tonight.  It's alway nice to meet you and please feel free to pop in anytime.

I forgot to mention when showing you our class blog that comments will not automatically show up as they will get sent through to me first for me to ok ... This just safeguards our site.

Outreach reading

Wow!!! We now have 3 lucky kids meeting with Margret and Sam her lovely black lab.

Cool kids show

Kids are so excited...  and for good reason!!!

Great discussions about bullying and how it isnt cool.

writing & reading

Not getting my hopes up but I think we could class today as a success !!!

Had a cluster of children away which meant that there was one computer per child (and a few left over - which ended up getting used when issues arose with the computers they started on).  A few teething issues happened (of course!!!) but every child logged on to google, accessed the google drive, found their folder and the writing document and wrote a sentence - alot even shared their work back to me.

They loved listening to hear my phone make a bird chip as I received an email to say that a document was shared with me ...

I also had two reading groups working on a google doc completing a project on either wetas or penguins ...

Monday morning writing

Computers ready,  Google docs all set to go ... I need my coffee this morning !!!  but cant wait to see how the whole class go at writing in a google doc...♥ it will either be a nightmare or shear brilliance... i'm hoping its the second.