Manaiakalani "Create" Teacher Only Day

Today we had the pleasure of a Teacher Only Day and this happened at one of our cluster school, Panmure Bridge School. firstly we walked into the grounds and followed the aromas of coffee brewing nd waiting for teachers to make their orders. We were welcomed to this school by their amazing Kapahaka group, ka nui te mihi ki a koutou mo o koutou manaaki ki a tatou katoa. Mahi rangitira ratou, we then listened to an amazing presenter who spoke to us about technology, yep devices how it use to be to how it is now, Fast and Effective. Our special presenter Sir Ian Taylor, he spoke real sense about how great and effective technology is. 

My first workshop was about create a maths game using AI, how excited was I, I used tetris as the game, maths equations would appear and the students would have to answer the equation before they get the puzzle piece. Such a cool and exciting way to learn and play games.  Thank you for this cool idea. 

Inquiry Update

THE PROCESS

I have come up with a way for me to keep my target students engaged and wanting more during maths. 

Step 1 - Launch 

Step 2 - Think About it

Step 3 - Explain your Thinking

Step 4 - Share your Strategy

We have started trying this cool way and it seems to keep these students engaged and wanting more. So I am going to continue using this format for my kids, so they know what is required from them. 

Check back soon, for another Inquiry update. 

2MEKE PRIME

Kia Ora and Welcome to Room 5.

This week has been our first week in full swing of using Prime Online and our Prime Books. My kids are really enjoying this way of learning maths. They enjoy that they have 2 totally different places to learn their maths. The students even love it more when they see that I have gone through their Prime Practice Books and marked them,  I have enjoyed seeing the students progress in class too. When I am marking their books and I see a similar error in the books I mark, I will stop my class, Show them an example that is an occurring error, we go over it together and when they get their books back they will check and correct their mistakes. Overall Prime Online and Prime Books are A for AWESOME. 

                                                  

2025 Inquiry

This year I am looking at maths for my inquiry. I looked at my data and seen I need to help my lower levelled students with addition and subtraction, eventually we will get to multiplication and division, however for now we are just focussing adding and subtracting 1 digit, 2 digit and 3 digit equations.

Stay tuned to see some progress from my target students.

 

Kia Ora, Talofa Lava, Malo e Lelei, Kia Orana and Greetings to you all. My name is Kelly Tipene and I am a Year 7 and 8 Teacher at Point England School. This year I have a very unique class that consists of 14 boys and 15 girls. We are a multi cultural class and we will follow and use our beliefs to be able to merg together to become 1 big whanau. This term our focus is JOY, so keep an eye out for a couple posts that show us JOY from these year 7s and 8s. 

Have an amazing day.