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Saturday, 14 September 2013

Fast Words - Word Power



57 words in 10 minutes.  That is great Florence!  

Kawenga/Responsibility


Our value focus this term has been "Kawenga/Responsibility."  We know that we can be responsible in lots of different areas.  An example of this:  to be responsible in the morning, we need to make sure we are ready for learning (put our book bag away, get brainfood etc).  A new aspect of our classroom this term has been "iTime" - we are learning to show responsibility at our independent learning time during reading.  In the morning, we make decisions about what we need to spend our time doing.  This helps us to be responsible for our learning and time management.  At my home conference, ask me how I am going with this...


Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Reading

Word Power

We are learning to write words quickly using a variety of materials.

We are also learning to write word families.


I can write fast words.

I can write a word family.



On Friday, we get together with Tohora (Room 2) to do Word Power.  Each week we practise a 'fast word' and turn it into a word family.  These are the activities we do each week...













 Here is an example of my learning...