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.

Day 9: Share

 

HERE WE ARE DAY 9 and OUR FINAL DAY OF RPI

Well today is Day 9: Sharing and the final day of RPI, I am looking forward to see what we have in store today, First up is Dorothy and she talked about Tohatoha - Share. 

Explaining the power of Sharing, how amazing is this word. With the Manaiakalani Framework the Learn, Create and Share concept is just amazing. Sharing your work with your learner and colleagues to empower our young ones. I enjoyed this korero and just love hearing about the great things that are happening. 

Being Day 9 and our last day of this amazing course we are now looking at the last of the Pillars of Practice. We will be pulling it altogether today too. Can’t wait for this. Using these pillars to really accelerate my learners in literacy has been challenging but at the same time rewarding. 

Next up we looked at the different feedbacks we can use for our learners. Using this model to give feedback to some of my learners about their work. I use commenting, leaving comments on my learners work for them to check and then amend where they can.  That is my way I can actively keep my summative assessment going in my classes. And to be honest, I think my class enjoy seeing my comments pop up in their work, it indicates to them that they need to get back on their work and go make some changes and then resend it back to me as marked which then indicates to me that they have seen my comment and they have made corrections.  

Getting my learners to work collaboratively has been challenging yet amazing. Knowing that they have to compromise or vote on who is doing what. I tell ya it was hard but they got there in the end. Reading a story, play or a poem and explaining in depth what the meaning or author's purpose was about the text was a hard activity for my learners however they all knew that they had to participate in the activity somehow.  

So my overall thoughts about this programme. 

AMAZING!!!!

I have totally enjoyed my time on this programme, and I can also say my teaching has upped and I see it in my learners as they are more engaged and eager for more fresh and new achievable engaging activities.

So from me…….. HITTING THE MARK!!!!! 

And there you have it. 9 Days of full on intense mahi done and dusted. Congratulations to ME!!!!! 

WoooHooooo.   

Day 8: Create

 Today we are very lucky to have our Day 8 of RPI, second to last one for this RPI course. Can’t wait to see what we have in store. Create, I wonder what we are Creating today. 

Enabling creativity that we as teachers really try to do for our learners. Our learners are empowered by our teachers. 

“Our young people will be CREATORS of content, not merely Consumers”

Has been a slogan of the Manaiakalani programme from Day1.

It is essential to document these creative artefacts and responses by leveraging the capabilities of digital technologies, allowing us to achieve this in ways that were previously impossible.

The WHY!! We as teachers do what we do. 

I really enjoyed getting my creative side working, We were asked to pick a verse of a poem that was provided. Record ourselves saying the verse and link it to a slide with our illustrations for the poem. 

Creating in Reading = Let’s get those Create Juices flowing

Awesome Awesome Awesome. See ya on the next one.

Day 7: Thinking

 Today we had the honour of Georgie Hamilton presenting to us today and we cannot forget Amie too.

I found this day really interesting as Critical Thinking is one of the most important aspects for kids to comprehend and analyse a text and make their own opinions based of what they're reading.  

Both our facilitators spoke in depth about making sure we think more deeply about the text.  For this to happen, we need to plan and think about ways we can get our learners thinking deeper about a text. There was one thing that came to my mind about how we can nail this for our students, ” lots and lots of different provocations for our extended discussions, and making sure my learners have deep conversations about the text.

This is an example of how we can encourage our children to think critically during their follow-up activities. This activity was designed specifically for our learners to engage with in their follow-up tasks, promoting deeper critical thinking about the text

This is another activity that involves critical thinking and I would like to try with my learners,  seeing what their interpretations would be using this tool, so watch this space. 

I enjoyed this session, we were able to have discussions about how to get our learners to critically think with the teacher and during their follow up.

Thank you to all the people involved in making these courses for us to continue building us as teachers so that we can implement more content and so that all our activities are engaging for our learners.

Day 6: Vocabulary and Decoding

 

Day 6: Vocabulary and Decoding.

Today we started our day off as usual which was so fitting being Maori Language week. I also asked to be excused and will be returning a little late as we at our school had a Haka off where the whole school participated in a full school haka that was being filmed to air in coming days. This was absolutely amazing and I feel everyone felt the wairua coming off that haka. What an amazing way to finish our Maori Language Week. 

Having a word in one’s oral vocabulary makes it much easier to solve a word in print 

I enjoyed learning about the different Tiers of words. Tier 1 being the high frequency words, tier 2 being a little more difficult words that learners dont use often and will now need to unpack throughout the text to be able to understand them and lastly the tier 3 words being specific topic focussed vocabulary that you wouldn't be able to use outside of this topic.  When planning for reading, we need to find Tier 2 words that our learners are going to be able to use in their everyday lives. Check out my very own example we had to create/design during our day. 

We were given exemplars of vocabulary tasks that we can use in our classroom.  After having a go at doing these, we then made our own activities.  This was a rich task and gave me a really good idea of how I wanted to go about doing follow up tasks rich of vocabulary. By doing this learners are able to continue learning the vocabulary we were doing during our guided reading lessons.

We need to keep our connections alive so that our learners can make those links.

Ensure you are explicitly teaching vocabulary for all our learners to succeed in school and life. 

We can’t leave it to Chance.

My goal from this week is to start implementing the tier 2 words activity into my class. I think my learners will really like the challenge of trying to understand and find meaning to these words. Sooooo watch this space…….