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Within this blog, I share ideas, lessons and resources that I have used during my teaching practice. Each blog post is tagged with the curriculum area it relates to. 

2 Truths and a lie

Here is a fun writing activity to make recount writing that little more exciting! We all know the game where you think of two truths...

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Here is a lesson idea for teaching the importance of punctuation and putting punctuation in the right place within a sentence. Prier...

The Zones of Regulation

The Zones of Regulation curriculum ( or The Zones for short) is designed by licensed occupational therapist Leah Kuypers. This curriculum...

Pobble 365

Need some inspiring images to spark your students imagination? Pobble 365 is a great site and teaching tool for literacy learning. It...

Wellbeing

Prompting wellbeing is something I am very passionate about. I have spent a number of years working as a youth worker, supporting and...

Māori Language Week 2018

During Māori language week 2018, to celebrate the language of te reo Māori I posted a new kīwaha on my youth groups social media pages. ...

Weekly Reflections

Yay it's Friday! Another week of learning wrapped up. Weekly reflections are a great skill for students to develop. They help students to...

Getting to know our learners

Your starting the year with a new class fill of new faces, all having different back grounds, abilities, interests, strengths and...

Sound Environments

This task is to build upon understanding of the three different sound environments: Natural sound (which is sounds created in the...

De Bono's Six Thinking Hats

Edward De Bono's Six Thinking Hats are a great tool to use to help expand students thinking about topics, concepts, situations and...

Graphs

While teaching graphs during my second year placement at Ashgrove school, my year 4-6 students kept forgetting the varies necessary ...

Mix Match Animals

This a warm up task I created sparks students creativity and imaginations. This is a great task to do to start a lesson to get students...

Colour me in Butterfly

This is a warm up task I created that explores different colours and lines. This is a great task to get students into the mind frame for...

Tectonic Plates

This is a visual aid I created to help my year 7-8 students understand the different movements of the tectonic plates, during third year...

Te Whare Tapa Whā

The Māori concept of Te Whare Tapa Whā is based on a model of a whare, where each wall represents four cornerstones of our health and...

Kīwaha

During Māori language week in 2017, I created this resource to encourage the use of kīwaha among my students. Having a focus kīwaha each...

Scribble Art

This is a lesson I did with a New Entrance to Year 2 class during third year placement at Amberley School. This a simple yet effective...

Kei te pēhea koe?

Kei te pai ahau! This is a resource I created during my second year placement at Ashgrove School to help my year 4-6 students learn...

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