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A Peek for A Week - Inside a Kiwi junior Classroom

Duration: 20 minutes and 58 seconds

Year: 2009

Country: New Zealand

Language: English

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Posted by: k12online on Dec 13, 2009

Rachel Boyd's keynote presentation for the "Week in the Classroom" strand of the K12 Online conference. A peek for a week inside a kiwi junior classroom of 6 year olds. Come and see what we get up to in our classroom learning during a week using a variety of online and web2 tools.

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K12 ONLINE 2009
BRIDGING THE DIVIDE
A PEEK FOR A WEEK
INSIDE A KIWI JUNIOR CLASSROOM
BY RACHEL BOYD
Hi there and welcome to my keynote presentation
for the week in the classroom strand
for the k12 online conference 2009.
My name is Rachel Boyd and this presentation
is titled a "Peek for a Week, Inside a Kiwi Junior Classroom."
I am from Nelson, New Zealand
I teach a year two class of six and seven year olds.
I am also the e-learning leader at my school
and run professional development for our staff.
In this presentation, we will take a look at the blend of
21st century learning in my class of six and seven year olds.
and get up in our very "20th Century" inspired classroom during a week.
I hope you enjoy sharing in my class's
learning and find the presentation interesting
NOW, LET'S TAKE A PEEK INSIDE ROOM 9...
NELSON, NEW ZEALAND
A PEEK FOR A WEEK IN ROOM 9
Hi there, welcome to room 9 it's of a peek of what we are learning
about this week, our classroom routines
Oral language and we are looking at
Listening and
Speaking
This week we are also during narrative writing.
As well as reading
Maths
Inquiry Learning
Music we are looking at
singing.
For physical education we are looking at
Fitness
To top it all off, some Visual Art.
I hope you enjoy our
A PEEK FOR A WEEK IN ROOM 9
Just so you know throughout this presentation should you see the term WALT
This simply stands for "We are learning to"
ONLINE ORGANIZATION
My classroom 9 has two major online features
and they are basically digital students in their classroom.
The page your are looking at here is our class blog.
Simply it's our learning journey
All sorts of information that we share for our conversation
with the world, things we are learning about we invite obviously
a lot of feedback and have conversations in that area.
Our second online presence is our classroom wiki
which we call our classroom learning hub.
basically it's got every single link that my students
need to use throughout the day.
It's got lots of different buttons used for different purposes
and everything my students need to do
is only one click away.
Perfect when you've got six year olds aren't typing.
So, just start using our learning hub
as a collection of links that we can do
what we need to do on the internet quickly.
Another way we organize our digital content
for use every day in the classroom
Is through this page here.
This is actually our interactive whiteboard home page.
Similar concept to before. It's got links
everything that my class needs to use throughout the day.
Some of them are links to interactive whiteboard files,
and the recent links out to the internet.
We are at the stage now where the students are able to
very comfortably use the board and
even run the morning program.
CLASSROOM ROUTINES
Each student in the classroom has
responsibilities or classroom jobs they need to do every week.
Two of these jobs involve our class blog.
The first one is to check, the head counter
to see how many people have been visiting our class blog.
SHARE OUR CLASS BLOG FOR A REAL LIFE AUDIENCE
So, before school and also at the end of the day.
They need to log on to our learning hub and go and see what
the head counter shows and make this number on a poster.
and we also started to use the interactive whiteboard to display that as well.
Earlier this year another one of my students had invented a new classroom job.
And that is called the head counter calculation, believe it or not.
Quite simply we wanted to work out how many
people had visited overnight to our class blog
and also over the weekend we hadn't been at school.
So, that's another job we do every morning.
One of our other classroom routines involves
this www.wallwisher.com page.
Before students have any ideas for posts
and things we should be putting on our class blog. They can log on
through the wiki hub post a sticky note up
there and we check it when we are ready to put new content in.
to our class blog. That's a responsibility they do before school.
ORAL LANGUAGE
SPEAKING
LISTENING
We start each day in our classroom with some sort of Oral Language activity
be it listening or speaking.
Mondays and Wednesdays this is class news so students are sharing
about personal experience.
What's become quite popular now, which is fantastic for junior students
If the students have been doing something really really fun
in the weekend they email in their photographs of what they've been doing.
And we have those displayed over the interactive whiteboard
while they are speaking.
Each day we do an oral language listening task
involving the website tvnz news.
Basically it's New Zealand news online and
they have video excerpts of
just world wide news as well as New Zealand only news.
Each day we watch a video clip of a news article.
Before we watch we ask some questions about what we would like to be finding out.
Then we listen for during the article for information
about who, where, what, why, etc.
After wards, we answer our questions
or perhaps we go back through the video and pause it and review it.
and often we've got more questions. So, then we go
online and google the answer.
And see what more we can find about the at the moment.
WRITING
NARRATIVE WRITING
The past two weeks we've been learning to write narrative stories
they would had lot of independent experience
on how to structure these and what we need to include
to have a really good narrative story
This week we are actually working online with another class in New Zealand.
In Aukland up in the North island.
And we are using google docs to do our collaboration together.
As we only have three computers,
We've broken the class into 12 of two, three studnents
and three groups will write online daily with
with this other class in Auckland. We've done this for two weeks
now and it has been really fantastic.
Always frustrating at the start for the students because the story is taking shape
after wards we have been able to learn a lot from each other.
We also have the learning and teaching in the success criteria
up against what they are writing up. so they can always check their own task.
OUR PAPER KEYBOARDS
Our class also has a set of paper keyboards
Which we use when they are on the mat and I am doing modeling of the writing process.
And we just integrated them to our writing sessions
and we practice things like capital letters and post ups and things and
and even thought the students have gone back to books to work with pen and paper
it's still very useful experience and helps them to
gain a little more familiarity with the keyboard and the computer.
As well as our classroom blog we've also have a writing spot blog
This is a special place we want our audience
to notice our successes and not our mistakes.
room9writing2009.blogspot.com
It's a place where students can independently write without having
spelling or their grammar or any of their work corrected by the teacher.
The follow a visual help sheet like this one you see in here.
To make sure they get their post online themselves independently.
Writing blogspot blogs proved very popular with our students
I think they enjoyed the independence. But, also as the rest of the class was writing
in their books they get to write on the computer on the blog as well.
I still conference with them just like normal.
So, coming around and having their story and they still use
their word sources to spell right in our case to help them with their spelling.
HANDWRITING
LETTER FORMATION
Twice a week in the classroom we learn correct numeral and letter formation.
I model it on the interactive whiteboard
and the student come up individually and model it and we
just celebrate each others successes there.
For my more fluent hand writers
once a week they get to go online and practice their typing
instead of their handwriting.
They're the students that very very capable
they can form their letters and the numbers very very smoothly and correctly
and their favorite site we visit is dance mat typing. (www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing)
FITNESS
Throughout the day we use a variety of
youtube clips and videos
for our daily fitness.
These are simply to get us to join in to get us active
to get our brains moving again and get our bodies moving.
BE PHYSICALLY ACTIVE AND FIT
READING
We have five reading groups in the classroom.
Each day we follow the reading task board. So, each group knows
what the are up to.
While I am taking instructional guided reading groups,
The other students are involved in non computer based
and computer based activities. Some of these include
the listening post, alphabet and board games,
practicing their spelling and using spelling tiles or moving mini whiteboards.
And whole host of other things.
We use our three classroom computers extensively at reading time
Scheduling groups to have time play a variety of online games
to practice and reinforce their reading skills.
These games are bookmarked by delicious bookmarking
by our page which is easily accessible by clicking the link through
from our classroom learning hub wiki.
WWW.DELICIOUS.COM/ROOM9NELSONCENTRAL
All groups are with me during guided and the rest of the class doing either a reading activity
or playing a reading game online
We also have pairs of students using the interactive whiteboard
to play a reading game
These games are especially for use in the day of the week
and are reading relate to a class class need
or something we need to practice and reinforce in reading.
After morning tea each day the students have
have a browsing independent reading time when most read print based books
During this time each day, three groups of two students
get to do their reading online.
They can choose from a wide range of class blogs from
around New Zealand and the world to read
and to leave comments on. We also have visual help sheet
will assist them to leave comments, create links,
with other schools and communicate around the world.
Another popular online literacy based site that my class uses daily
is www.spellingcity.com
Spelling city allows to practice their own set of spelling words
that I have created online and I've found an engaging way.
CORRECTLY SPELL ESSENTIAL BASIC WORDS
MATHS
Just like in reading, we also follow a task board in maths
Students are grouped according to the addition and subtraction
strategy level they use.
CORRECTLY SOLVE ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION MATHS PROBLEM
While I take a group for lesson the other students either complete and independent maths task or
or play board or online maths games.
Once again we have a button on our learning hub wiki
links through to suitable maths games I've signed them out to literacy count
One of the more popular maths sites that my class
use is www.tutpup.com Everyone is signed up with their own user name
and password. As a teacher I can keep track of
their scores and they get to practice the addition
subtraction, multiplication, and division in an online environment.
(AND DID I MENTION IT'S COMPLETELY FREE!)
competing with students all over the world.
INQUIRY LEARNING
CLEAN STREAMS
Our inquiry topic has focused on list of clean streams.
Students received the task of an animated movie
in xtranormal to communicate the five features of healthy streams.
xtranormal is fantastic
for my students because if you can type you can make a movie.
We also used the magic can button to make movie making a bit simpler.
The results are fantastic
You can view them on our class blog and our writing blog
This week is also an exciting time for six of my
year two students because they are running
the weekly tech session or the "techi briki" we have with the teachers.
to teach them new technical skills, and new
ICT e-learning skills to use in their classroom.
So, this week's been quite exciting for those six students
as they ran the session on xtranormal.
and showed the teachers and treated them and taught
them to use their xtranormal and create their own movies.
NIBBLES EMAIL AND STORY
AFTER LUNCH EACH DAY
After lunch each day we have our nibbles time
This is a period of time when the students can finish any left over lunch.
they've got. And during this time we also read our emails.
WWW.GMAIL.COM
Our emails come mainly from comments that are from
our classroom and writing blog. What happens is, once
they are approved and moderated they get redirected to to our class email.
MAKE LINKS AND CONNECTIONS TO OTHER CLASSES.
We have email monitors and these two
students are responsible all week for
checking the email with the class and reading
the comments and sharing them with the class.
At this stage we also visit other schools
if they've left us a comment and visit their blog and leave them a comment as well.
We check all comments we receive from New Zealand and
plot them on our map, showing their name and location of the visitor.
LOCATE WHERE IN THE WORLD OUR ONLINE VISITORS
It's particularly exciting when we receive international comments
especially when the visitors leave their geographical location.
At this stage we then go on what we call the google air plane.
and go visit their home town and see where they are located in the world.
EARTH.GOOGLE.COM
in relation to us.
VISUAL ARTS
WITH A DIGITAL TWIST
This week in visual arts we are creating digi-art linked to our inquiry learning
CREATE A DIGITALLY ENHANCED ARTWORK
PLANNING OUR DIGI ART
TAKING THE DIGITAL PHOTOS
SKETCHING OUR ARTWORK FOREGROUNGS
CUTTING OUT THE DIGITAL PHOTOS
DOUBLE CHECKING EVERYTHING FITS
DYING THE BACKGROUND
THE COMPLETED DIGI ART!
THANKS FOR WATCHING
I hope you've enjoyed your "peek for a week" inside our classroom.
Hopefully, you've seen a slice of what is achievable
even with limited classroom computers
and a class of six year olds.
I firmly believe that technology
adds greatly to good classroom teaching
enriching, adding vibrancy
to the learning of our students.
It has been my absolute honor and pleasure
presenting in the k12 online conference
Ka kite ano
from New Zealand
Transcription: Jose Rodriguez