Room+5

Sonya Speedy

__ROUND ONE__ Sonya wanted add some 'spark' to her daily routine and introduce some new and exciting activities for the children while they were 'camping out' in Room 1 (waiting for their classroom to be re-furbished). She took the plunge and introduced a raft of new Oral Language tasks (like "What is it?" Bags, News and Views, "What's Behind the Window?"), a new format for modeling Written Language, additions to her shared book and a 'upgraded' parts of her timetable (including snazzy new-look timetable labels). The results speak for themselves; both the students and the teacher are more excited and enthusiastic in their every day learning and look forward to trying out all the 'new stuff' in their new room.



__ROUND TWO__ Being back in Room 5 was great (the new room looks fantastic!) and was amazed at the progress the children have made! We 'unpacked' the writing exemplars and are indentifying our own next steps so that we can move to the next level. We displayed the English exemplars on the wall and have set clear goals for six and seven year-olds. This gave the children a clear picture of where their gaps were and what they need to do in order to move to the next level. Each child chose a learning intention to work on at writing time and glued these into thier books. Sonya also introduced more independent choices at Reading time (that developed reading skills) with a stucture that the children enjoy following.

During the week I also introduced some new websites to use during Literacy time. They help practise alphabetical order, reading high frequency words and simple spelling.