Posts by Suzanne Flowers
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Procedure Writing
Teaching the skills required for any type of writing is important before students can do it on their own. Procedure writing is no different. The I do,…
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Red Brain, Green Brain
My question to the class was, “How can we increase energy to the Green Brain? What actions can we take?”
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Building Resilience
Building resilience is part of growing up. There are many opportunities during the school day to put this into practise. In our school life students c…
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Digital Technology In Action
The build digital technology skills progresses as students move through primary school. These skills are broken down into achievable tasks as part of …
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Art skills a plenty
Room 12 wanted to take a slightly different look at the popular self portrait Visual Arts activity.
We decided to use the 19th century Italian artis…
We decided to use the 19th century Italian artis…
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Understanding Time - a Life Skill
The concept of time can be a difficult concept for students to grasp. It is not just about learning to ‘tell the time.’ Understanding when we do thing…
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What is moveNprove?
MoveNprove games are great warm up or warm down mathematics games. MoveNprove is a rapid retention game which can be used to review prior skills and k…
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Mathematical Repeating Patterns
Room 14 explored how to create repeating patterns and the attributes that are included in these patterns.
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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…