Today Pauline and I attended the first ALL meeting of the year. This was held in Dunedin and teachers from all over Otago who are teaching either ALL or ALiM in their schools this year were there. The day was a great chance to meet this year's facilitators and to get our heads back in ALL mode. Pauline and I worked out what students we would most likely be having in our groups this year. We also got some new ideas for communicating with whanau and the community which we might be able to implement in our groups this year. I found this was a very worthwhile day and I'm excited about teaching ALL again this year.
This week in class we have been trying to include more Te Reo Maori in our every day language in class. This is on top of the Te Reo sessions we already do each week. We used a new resource that was sent to school which was new books that were in Te Reo in the front and then English in the back. It was great to learn some new language and refresh our memories on some other terms we have used before. We also learned a Traditional Maori game called Tapu Ae. A new class favourite.
On Tuesday I had a Google Hangout with my Year 5-6 cohort of teachers from Maniototo and Roxburgh. (The Twizel person/people didn't show). This was a great chance to have a catch up with how things are going for us and how we are going with our inquiries.
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