Goldies Teachers

A bit of light entertainment...

Here are some links to the main areas we covered at the Lead Teacher meeting... The families section has been updated and now includes... An  introductory video  for parents Maths at our house section  - good for classroom themes (includes gardening/recycling/reading and more). Knowledge activities  which could be good for homework Math Kete  - ideas for parents about creating a kete of equipment to support maths at home. Other resources  – extra links - check out the ECE section for activities which could support our discovery activities and questioning. Under the math houses/reading theme is a list of picture books at each level and strand. These include activities to go with the books. e-ako maths Designed for year 7 & 8 students who are struggling with place value, basic facts, fractions but could be used at middle/senior primary. We looked at place value 2. It uses commonly used materials in each questi...

Powerpoint is another way of making photo stories with your class. You can use both photographs and/or drawings that have been saved as jpegs (kidpix, mimio drawings etc). Author stream and slideshare are both sites to upload your power point too in order to embed it into your blog site Room 1 and their Room 10 buddies More PowerPoint presentations from aSGuest134268 Another way is to save the powerpoint as a movie and upload as a movie onto your blog.  Greedy Cat

Thanks for your engagement today. Don't forget about saving mimio pages as jpeg as something different to add to your blogs. Just save it as a jpeg and upload straight to your blog as an image. The two sites we looked at were Photo peach flickr I discovered how to make captions on your slideshow in photo peach... 1. make the slideshow as we did today. 2. Before you copy the embed code - click edit, and select photos and captions. It lets you easily add captions to each slide. Also on edit you can delete slide shows too!!

This site also has maths and english links.

I have made a new link list with both the e-central wikispace and the central otago ultra net page, on the right hand side of this blog. If you need to go back and reread or access any of the resources that Dave and Karla set up for us, you can do that here.