Lego Lunches K-4 school initiative  This started as a kindergarten welfare initiative for students who had difficulties settling in or making friends.

Our school is huge 850 plus students,...

More Songs and Nursery Rhymes  I have a class of new Receptions who require some foundation literacy experiences - so I thought Nursery Rhymes and Songs would be a fun way to do this....

Finding learning centres... what a way to spend my last week of school holidays!  I have just spent my last week of school holidays searching the net for literacy and numeracy centres, laminating and cutting out and bagging centres. This ...

Kim  For the last 4 years I have been teaching Reading Recovery and doing learning support. I really enjoyed it and I learned a lot about teaching. I love being ...

A little about me and my teaching so far...  Hi, My name is Sarah. I have been teaching for 6 years. In that time I have taught kindergarten, grade 4, grade 1 and prep. I have taught in both government ...

K-2 Team Leader - a new adventure  It's time for my next adventure!
After the Easter break, I will be taking up a new position as the K-2 Team Leader at our school.This means no longer ...

Term 1 continues!!!!!  I am still very busy with my work as Learning Support Co-ordinator. I teach across the school years Kindergarten to Year 8. What has been fantastic are ...

Getting back into the swing of things!  What a hectic start to the year! I was fortunate to have attended the Australian Government Summer School for Teachers of Literacy and Numeracy, held at ...

Working With Prep 1  In Australia we have just started a new school year. This year I am working with Prep and Grade 1 students (those who turn 6 and 7 this year). I have 22 ...

Movies in the Classroom  During this last trimester of class, my 3rd and 4th grade classes watched the movie "Nocturna", A magical adventure".

This is a movie from Spain, in ...

Fathers' Night  As I often don't get to meet the fathers of my class, this year I introduced a 'Fathers' Night'.

It went for about 1 and a half hours. I originally ...