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Silly Snakes
‘Snakes’ is such an interesting word. It starts with the blend ‘sn’ and has a bossy e at the end so the letter ‘a’ is a long vowel (says it’s name). T…
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Harnessing the Teacher Within
It is not only teachers who can teach us skills, as Room 5 recently found out. Teina to teina teaching is a great way for students to teach their peer…
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Art as Taonga
Kia maumahara ki tōu mana āhua ake. Cherish your absolute uniqueness.
Arts education enables students to generate ideas about themselves, their exper…
Arts education enables students to generate ideas about themselves, their exper…
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Teaching the Teacher - Fitness Fun with Room 6
Wanting some fun fitness activities for activity breaks with a Year 5 and 6 class I started to look for ideas, when I suddenly thought "why don’t I as…
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Literacy all around us
Cast your mind back to when you were five or six and see if you can pinpoint when you learnt to read and write. I can’t. It happened over time. This i…
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Our Virtual Learners
Participating in VLN has become a long-standing tradition at Wairakei Primary School - one of the many perks of being a Year 6. VLN stands for ‘Virtua…
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Room 2 Dance Journey
What did they really know about dance? They could name different types of dance, such as hip hop, breakdancing and ballet. Most students had trouble n…
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Water Fountains - Science Fun in the Junior School
Children are born scientists – they are innately curious about the physical environment and naturally open to making meaning through their exploration…
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Mathematical Repeating Patterns
Room 14 explored how to create repeating patterns and the attributes that are included in these patterns.
Guided Reading
Learning to read is a complex task. When students have more than one strategy that they can use when they get stuck, then they have a feeling of succe…
