Goldies Teachers

Silent reading and reflection time - approx 10minutes, choose what you want to read and look at... some are quick reads, some are pictures. After 10 minutes we will do a PMI about ipads and pod of computers as a group. Ipads/Ipods in education Interface Article Education Aotearoa Article (iPad Fad) Kamo Primary School website info for Parents I don't hate ipads... but , blogpost Tom Barrett's slideshow on ipads in the classroom    and on ipods in the classroom An iPad For Every Child in My Class? No Thanks! Classroom photos of ipods/ipads in use E-learning classroom Computer labs/pods Explicit teaching that can happen with laptop pod Computer labs Article about old computers - but skim down to the possible ways forward Article about creating colloboration - skim down to bottom section

A resource finder has been added to nzmaths. 'Figure it out' books are now online. Unfortunately some of the older books are not available. When they were published permission wasn't collected to post the children's photos online.  Check out the books and teachers notes here... Position and Orientation - Most of the activities we looked at for Level 2/3 were from figure it out books and were fun hands on activities.  This book was recommended for teaching angles... We looked at the unit Scatter Cat from nzmaths and how it can be adapted to use across the school. It was suggested to use video as a change from the book to engage the children. If you are wanting to clarify where your children should be working at in relation to the strands/national standards it is clearly set out on nzmaths. There are also illustrations of the standards across the levels here. The accelerating learning in maths project intervention materials are now available in draft form. ...