Literacy

Naming is a key to identity ... and a start to literacy

Your name is VERY important

Emma writing

Monkey bars and literacy

A new language, the language of earthquakes

Literacy is linking history and emotion

Role play ... experimenting with life

The literacy of cricket

Building literacy by making up your own games

Building language through imagination and sharing with a friend

Using prior knowledge and experience to fire imagination

Building strength and coordination

"You don't learn to sit still by sitting still. It is essential to have balance and core muscle strength." Gill Connell

A story can take many forms

Building hand strength, arm strength and coordination

Providing provocations and extending vocabulary

Bella's crocodile

Building literacy

Building, confidence, self belief, balance, coordination, hand strength and core body strength

I start with that

Using the tools of literacy

Maths or literacy

Maths or literacy? That is the question. One of the wonderful aspects of our national curriculum Te Whariki is that recognition of the interwoven nature of learning. Heath and Willson used their negotiation skills to create their own rules and organise their own game. All important skills for literacy.

Building a confident self