Bethells Thinking Journey

Wow we have finished all our testing, room 3 children have made huge improvements in reading, writing and maths we are very proud of them. Although we are worried about a few that aren't moving we are getting in more parent support and trying to allow more time in class for these children to get better with their reading and maths strategies.

Our dionosaur immersion is underway and is working well, the children are building a lot of prior knowledge to the topic and discussing what they know and questioning the unknown. They have also started on knowledge and comprehension tasks to do with the topic in our learning centre.

Our next little focus on thinking is the multiple intelligences and finding out about their strengths and weaknesses so they can then begin to understand why they think the way they do and why they might not be as good at some things. We look forward to our pod day this Monday with full immersion into Multiple intelligences. We will then move into what we know and then do the test to see what they are strong and weak in. This I'm sure will be no surprises.

Pod game sessions and workshops on how to play lunch time games has been beneficial. Children have come up with their own games to to share with others. I enjoyed watching their teaching abilities and the fun that they have. The gear is being used a lot too.

A busy start but wow!