SMARTIE Strategy

 

 

(Border purchased here)

LEARN: Strategies for Success

This is a great visual reminder for students, particularly when undertaking tests or exams!

 

(Purchased the border here and the lettering here). 

I Eat Meat

Spelling display hint: meet or meat?

Guess Who?

GUESS WHO?

"Changes Over Time" was our HSIE unit, and we had displayed in our room, photographs of students from when they were babies. At the end of the week, and without having discussed their ideas, we held a class competition to see who could correctly guess the most amount of children to their baby photos.

Each photo was numbered and students had to write their guess on a worksheet for collection.

Hear

Simple and clever!

Spell 'few'

How to spell "FEW"!

When I Grow Up

Each student was asked to write about what they wanted to be when they grew up as part of our HSIE unit on 'Change Over Time'. They dressed in character and presented a speech to the class. We also role-played and I video-taped it as part of our assembly item.

Here is our wall display of "When I Grow Up I Want To Be...."

An island is land.

What a very clever way to remember the spelling of "island"! (island clipart found here).

How To Spell 'PIECE'

"PIECE" - such a tricky word for youngster to spell!

Display this poster and repeat the slogan to help students remember how to spell 'piece' correctly. Works every time!

Literacy Groups

 

Literacy Groups is an integral part of my English timetable: we undertake tasks three - four times weekly.

Groups are differentiated and run according to a schedule so that I can read with each weekly, and at other times, students work in small groups or individually.

Over the years I have made many games, but found Teach This to have the most valuable pre-made variety of games. 

Games can include:

• Word Attack: spelling and reading
• Charades
• CVC
• Phonics/Sounds
• Sentence writing
•  Grammar games
• Sound hunts
• Book hunts
• Scrabble
• Boggle
• Up Words
• Scategorries
• Bingo
• Rhyming games
• Sight words
• Spelling games
• Writing
• Magnetic lettering/words

 

Upon benchmarking each term, I formulate groups and have these displayed on posters for student's reference. Names are blu-tacked to laminated posters so that they can be moved around as the focus changes or as they move up the levels.

Grouping is flexible and dependent on the reading level/benchmark of the students, or the lesson's focus. I make tubs or boxes for each group and colour-code to match groups. Games, readers and worksheets are rotated on a weekly basis.










Readers are filed according to level and accessible for students for homework. They are allowed to swap as they need.

 

Slip Slop Slap

A display poster I created using images by Kate Hadfield.

Solid, Liquid, Gas Assignment

My Year 2 students had a science task - to research and conduct an experiment using one of the three forms of water: solid, liquid or gas.

They had to present their findings on a poster and prepare a speech for their classmates. Some even opted to conduct the experiment for their peers!

Here are some samples of the posters that were created:

And here is one of the experiments conducted by a student:

Materials:

1. Sprite
2. Plastic cup
3. Sultanas

 

Steps:

1. Fill the cup with Sprite

2. Drop some sultanas into the liquid

3. Watch the sultanas bob up and down in the liquid.

Classroom Display Walls

The following images are some samples of classroom presentation for Prep - Stage 2, with ideas for a variety of elementary artwork wall and hanging displays:

Stop, Drop and Roll

Artist Kate Hadfield created these fire fighter clip art images that helped me create this poster for our PDHPE unit on 'Safety':

Rainbow Song

The colours of the rainbow!

Clock

 

Copy onto coloured paper, laminate and display around the classroom clock. 

My students have found this to be a very useful visual aid in helping them tell the time.

Welcome: People Portraits

 

Welcome to our class! At the beginning of the year, my students decorate a profile template to decorate a door or wall to introduce them to visitors.

Mixing Primary Colours

Here are a couple of ways I had my preschool and Kindergarteners experiment with mixing primary colours:

Listen = Silent

 

(Frame from 3am Teacher)

Colours Poster