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Dragons, Dragons, Dragons!
The dragons in the Ready to Read book Dragons, Dragons, Dragons! by Feana Tu’akoi felt a bit lonely and sad. They realised they needed to make new fri…
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Silly Snakes
‘Snakes’ is such an interesting word. It starts with the blend ‘sn’ and has a bossy e at the end so the letter ‘a’ is a long vowel (says it’s name). T…
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Literacy all around us
Cast your mind back to when you were five or six and see if you can pinpoint when you learnt to read and write. I can’t. It happened over time. This i…
Guided Reading
Learning to read is a complex task. When students have more than one strategy that they can use when they get stuck, then they have a feeling of succe…
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Dancemania Research Projects in Room 8
Room 8 took our dance learning to the next level by choosing a style of dance, completing a research project and making Slide presentations to share. …
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Designing A Maths Game
Our thoughts turned to revising and consolidating our basic maths skills. In a writing activity Room 13 students explained what their need was and how…
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Enviroschools’ Hero Project
An “environmental, action-based programme” has provided a unique opportunity to a specialist group of our senior students. This programme, facilitated…
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Hands-on Experiences Develop Writing Skills
Playing on the playground, visiting the maze, painting self-portraits, noticing spring or blowing bubbles are just a few of the ‘recreative’ writing m…
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Money, Money, Money
If you are at Wairakei Primary School, Taupō, you may have heard some senior students mention that they are being ‘paid’ at school. You have not mishe…
It's Creepy and it's Spooky
After reading a haunted house story, Room 10 students created their own mysterious mansions using black pastel and watercolour paint.
