Teaching, Travels, Tales and Tea
Having come back from holiday and having a couple of weeks of school holiday left, I thought I would compile a list of things to do in Auckland.
I scoured about 4 or 5 different travel websites and read through the many things they suggested to be done in Auckland, many of these things are free, and took the ones I thought would be most important and interesting to do.
Continue reading “24 Things To Do In Auckland”
I’ve been on and off work for the last week and a bit. I’ve been feeling really under the weather and it got the better of me last week. I have used this time sleeping and recovering and as I’ve been feeling better I’ve used this time to catch up on my journal.
I’ve also been exploring some new forms of journaling and have done some reading and youtube watching about Bullet journaling. Some interesting examples can be found on Marie claire UK, Life hacker and this in depth, one month in look at what worked and changes were made to make the system work from Boho Berry.
Our topic this term has been imagination. This is a round of the best picture books which link to Imagination, I have read ALL these books with my kinder kids and they loved them!
The children loved looking at Quest and Journey, they could retell the story and not worry about getting it right as there are no words. It really encouraged them to think and imagine what story the pictures are telling.
Not a stick or box really helped them imagine what everyday items could become.
The children gave the story machine a big thumbs up! They love how the letters made pictures.
It might be an apple was a great book and we talked about lots more things that an apple might be.
This book just ate my dog was a funny book that had the kids laughing and wanting to help shake out the lost characters.
We loved reading all these books and they really helped us improve our imaginations.
For other book ideas check these posts out
This week we are looking at Goldilocks and the three bears. We will be reading the story and acting it out using our imaginations this week.
I have used this bear size sorting activity.
And this item sorting activity to sort a whole bunch of different things from our classroom.
We also looked at the idea of sequencing with this class anchor chart idea and worksheet using these great sequencing cards.
We looked at things which are hard and soft in our classroom.
We used this template to make characters for our drama centre.
For writing early finishers I have got them to do this writing sight word sticks activity, they use an ice cream stick with different sight words written on to practise writing their sight words. I have introduced it first on white boards then for those who can in their writing books.
I found a whole bunch of activities on this site as well which would be great for kinder/ early years classrooms.
For our Imagination topic we did some activities looking at famous artwork and how they made us feel. Then we drew our own to show different emotions.
We also imagined we were super hero’s and created our super hero cuff’s and wore our mask’s. We wrote about what powers our super hero would have and how they can save the world. They loved this and spent a god amount of time zooming around the classroom as super hero’s.
Some more exciting ideas for a year 0 classroom can be found here
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This is the 13th Photography spotlight, This week’s theme is Mountains/ Volcanoes. Here in Auckland we have a lot of volcanoes (about 40 I think) and they are spread all over the city. I wanted to share some of them with you today. I know not everyone can take pictures of volcanoes so that’s why it’s mountains as well.
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I read a lovely blog post over at live 🙂 Life about a book called Please, Mr Panda.
A panda has a tray of Doughnuts to share and goes around asking some creatures if they would like one. A variety of responses are given but only one gets the doughnuts. Continue reading “Please, Mr Panda”
Grab a coffee and come, sit and have a chat with me.
If we were having coffee together…. I would be telling you all about my week and the crazy antics we got up to at school.
If we were having coffee together…… I might be
drinking tea and eating cake, my guilty pleasure is coffee and chocolate cake!
If we were having coffee together…….. I’d be telling you about my plans for this summer holiday and how I’m looking forward to a visit to the south island. We are going to Queenstown for Christmas.
If we were having coffee together ……….. I would tell you
about the book I’m reading called The Daughter of the Empire and how great the series is. Although I’d be mourning my lack of time for reading at the moment.
If we were having coffee together……. I would tell you how much I need to find the motivation to go workout again. How rubbish I feel because I haven’t been working out and how my random pains keep popping up which means I need to workout before it gets worse.
If we were having coffee together…….. I might have an iced one as it’s finally starting to get warm now.
If we were having coffee together ……. I would tell you how I have finally put in my qualifications assessment so I can get paid the correct amount. This is exciting because I’ll get back pay and hopefully get quite a lot.
If we were having coffee together ……….. I’d share the most exciting news I got this week was that I got a full time teaching job for next year. At the same, lovely school I’m currently working at. I’m looking forward to starting a classroom again from the start of the year.
So, come, share a coffee with me and let’s catch up. What would you tell me if we were having coffee?
Other posts you may enjoy
We spent a sunny Saturday afternoon walking around Auckland’s Botanic Gardens. Here is my photo Journey. Continue reading “Auckland Botanical Gardens”
While stumbling around the internet i found this blog with a great day by break down of how they introduced the daily 5 in their classroom. This has been really helpful and we have started doing it their way. We are practising daily and slowly increasing our stamina. We started at only being able to read for a minute and a half and can now manage a great 4 and a half minutes. Continue reading “Reading the Daily 5 – Introduction in Room 28”
This is the 12th Photography spotlight, This week’s theme is the Diwali since we celebrated Diwali at school on Friday. I thought I would share with you the photos that I took around school.
A Wandering Woman's Travels 