Mornings with Hine

Learning Languages with Jeanne Gilbert Learning the Māori syllable, sound system. So you can go back to the chart and you will be able to pronounce all Māori words. You can use the chart to revisit the sound system. Fly swats to point to the sounds with the chart on the data projector. Are There Three Or Two to help remember a e i o u sounds.

We presented our inquiries to staff last Wednesday during our PL. I have to say I didn't feel nearly as nervous as I used to. I think this is due to the experience I have been gaining from leading learning at ConnectEd gatherings. Here are some slides from my presentation: I enjoyed listening and learning about what is happening in the other rooms. I want to follow up with some information from Lynda's inquiry. Her inquiry was about getting the children to look  at the words. Some of the things she said really rang true with me. At the beginning of the year my readers who weren't ready to read were not looking at the words. I can see the benefit of ensuring the children keep their eyes on the book. I would like to know what phrases she used to keep the children looking and if she did any exercising around training their eyes to look.

I attended two sessions at Endeavour School . One was about collaborative teaching- From this I found it difficult to listen in the space we were in. We were at a long table and should have moved to better suit the group. I decided to take the time to explore the space further. I noticed they had groups listed on the wall. We were told students check in at the beginning of the week - choosing their writing group based on the learning goal. Reading was chosen by their interest in the text choices. The second session was about Discovery time- this session was really a group of passionate teachers who were all in some way or another starting the journey into discovery time. We chatted about how we thought we are allowing for discovery time. I would have appreciated some questions to get our discussion started and to guide us during the time we had. I came away with thoughts on how to include it I my program but I still want to explore the idea of the children leading the discovery and pr...