Blog

Giveaway goodness!
11 April 2013

To celebrate our 1000th liker we are giving away 3 free memberships to Top Teacher!

File 5624

So visit our facebook page and get liking and sharing to earn entries!!

'Remember keep calm and pretend it's on the lesson plan!'

Top Teacher xx

Lots of Literacy
9 April 2013

We are well and truly into the swing of our literacy rotations now and I thought I would share a couple of activities my kiddies are enjoying at the moment.

My Pre's are really loving learning the alphabet and cvc words at the moment!

 

Using our letter hunt resource they have been looking through magazines to find letters!

File 5621

File 5620

Here is a new resource my Year 1's have been doing during rotations to re-enforce their spelling words.

They complete this independently and choose their own words from their spelling lsit.

Download the word house here!

File 5619

File 5622

File 5623

'Remember keep calm and pretend it's on the lesson plan'

Top Teacher xx

Top Teacher Tip #14
7 April 2013

Spring is in the (Northern hemisphere) air! If you are learning about spring in your class, you may be growing plants too. We all know how much the kiddos love watering their plants. However sometimes too much love can be deadly! Use these watering cans to reduce the water poured onto the plants...

Milk bottle watering can
File 5581

This watering can/bottle seems to have a lot of holes in it. We suggest starting with a few holes and then gradually adding more to increase the water flow.

 

'Remember keep calm and pretend it's on the lesson plan'

Top Teacher xx

Welcome to Kindy!
2 April 2013

This is a post that I have been meaning to share with you all for a while now, a tour of my classroom. Those of you who follow us on Facebook you would have seen what the room looked like before it became a Kindy. Here's a little reminder...

File 5566

Now go on and tell me, who doesn't love exposed red brick and dusty pink pin up boards? Beautiful!

The brief back story to this room is that it was a Pre-Primary for many, many, many years. We then had a new building built as a part of the "Building Revolution" and the Pre-Primary moved to the new building along with the Kindy - which was in it's first year onsite having always been held in an offsite location. This room then became the unofficial furniture graveyard. The place where you send wonky tables and broken drawer sets to die. After only 18 months the room was full and filthy! Thankfully we have a super cleaner who helped get the room back up to scratch.

This is what the room looks like now...

File 5567
Looking from the same place as the first photo

 

 File 5568

 From the front door...

 

 File 5569

 Books and puzzles area

 

 File 5570

 Construction mat

 

 File 5571

 View from the mat area

 

And just because it's a rare occassion that my desk looks like this I thought I'd document it!

I can confirm that spray and wipe was used in the cleaning of this desk!! Miracle!

File 5572

So there you have it! Hope you enjoyed having a little peek into my room.

'Remember keep calm and pretend it's on the lesson plan'

Top Teacher xx

Archive