Divide sight word cards into packs of 10 or more.

Children read through words and pass to the person on their left, until they have read all the words (bundles)

Flash words, first one to say word, wins the card. Most cards, wins the game.

Rotation 2: Paired reading.

Knees to knees, elbows to elbows

same reader each OR share reader between

Match pace- not too fast or slow.

Ask each other questions when done.

Rotation 3: Writing instructions: how to do/ make something, on white boards

Rotation 4: Puzzles

• Literacy Books

• Please use correct format of date:

  Day of week, day month year

  e.g. Monday, 20 January 2025

• Check for left handed children

• Correct posture

  
  

1. a - as in apple

2. e - as in bed

3. u - as in umbrella

4. i - as in pin

5. o - as in pot

6. sh - as in shell

7. ch - as in chat

8. th - as in think

9. wh - as in whistle

10. a_e - as in spade

11. e_e - as in complete

12. u_e - as in cute

13. i_e - as in bike

14. o_e - as in bone

15. ai - as in rain

16. ar - as in star

17. ue - as in blue

18. oa - as in road

19. y - as in shy or my

20. ea - as in dream

21. igh - as in high

22. ow - as in snow

23. ew - as in chew or stew

24. er - as in river

1. church

2. two

3. house

4. dream

5. they

6. plate

7. enjoy

8. there

9. going

10. light

Writing sentences - Focus on:

• identifying nouns

• punctuation/ capital letters

Rotation 2: Base ten blocks - place value: building numbers, breaking up numbers, bonds - white boards

Rotation 3: iPads - Assigned Matific work: Assign your own class's matific class work, please choose patterns, odd/ even. ordinal numbers and/or comparing (This then covers planning)

Rotation 4: Elastica or puzzels on carpet

• Year and weekly planning:

  who is doing the next three weeks?

  
  

• LSEN:

  Please start adding you LS/ behavioural kids - check bridging meeting notes, Ed Admin, etc.

  
  

• Assessments:

  Maths:

  NumberSense:

  Pages + Concepts:

  Baseline:

  
  

  Literacy:

  Baseline:

  Reading:

  Comprehension:

  Writing:

  Language:

• Gradebook:

  New Grade books on the Drive by end of week

  
  

• Market Day:

  Let's start thinking of how we'd like to do this; Remember to invite senior college kids to come buy ahead of time- they loved buying last year- just need to arrange this with Claude!!

• More toys and baked goods

• Blueberry Heights Trip: 6th of Feb

  Update Google form

  Blueberry picking - in groups

  5K walk - Shall we do a scavenger hunt?

  picnic and games - last year the kids got a little bored, I'll think of some games to play

  Coffee and snacks- reminder for staff to take along some cash ( but shall we club in for Joyce?)

  
  

  
  

• Go and see Tush in your shirt is tacky

• Run-offs:

Ironwood, 28^th of Jan, at MH

Monday, 8h00 starting, Grade1s, but Tush to send info

Interns involved, need to check ages!! NB.

• Morning Duty:

Monday – Kyla & Megs

Thursday – Modjadji & Mothii

• R60 to Sherryn for Molly birthday

• Birthday- bring something for tea, and do something in your Grade

• Home time throughout the week - 14h00. Strictly.

• Responsibility and accountability – bring in to prep where we can.

• New parent info evening, 17h30, smart dress code + name badges

• Add PIMS to your parent info powerpoint

• Birthdays – treats are welcome, but strictly by 10h00, no later,  and delivered to the class.

• Check chargers and cables for iPads

• Back of Mathematics Workbook

I thought we could use one of our readers? let's discuss.

Circle Maps or bubble map

• NumberSense leaves out some crucial skills

• Handling of apparatus and concrete resources are not enough

  Kits, measuring things, blocks.

• introduce concepts concrete first

• Plan guided activities using classroom resources (Math groups)

• Try to use more than one approach

Check your resources in class, what do we need, what needs to be replaced etc.

• Stop when your class does not get a concept, even if it is only your weaker children, stop and teach the concept intensively.

• Counting:

  Use number language - terminology (most, least, etc)

• Manipulation

  counting in multiples

  doubling, halving, vertical sums

  Number sentences, chains, pyramids, bubbles, etc

  increase/ decrease by

• Problem solving:

  Activities that help develop new number strategies (Blooms)

inchworms, grasshoppers - slow and fast leaners both need help.

• Assessment:

  Ursula suggests not doing a whole page at a time for assessment

  pre-select on different pages the different concepts that need to be assessed.

  thoughts?

White boards/ belly your board

Workbooks:

• Use this to do a mapping lesson- how to map correctly

  
  

Found this on Matific, really nice if you want to do counting with your whole class- maybe before starting your NumberSense