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MACC JS Blog Party: January 2012
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MACC JS Blog Party. Welcome to the Mount Annan Christian College Junior School Teacher Blog. Thursday, January 26, 2012. Doing the 5 in 2012 - Lets Go! Well we are gearing up for a full scale launch of Daily 5 this term from Kindy to Year 4. Even our Prep class is getting in on the action! Http:/ teachingliteracy.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/03/13/my-literacy-block-modifying-the-daily-. Https:/ sites.google.com/a/mccleary.wednet.edu/kinder/daily-5-literacy. Http:/ delightfuldaily5cafe.blogspot.com/. Http:/ k-...
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MACC JS Blog Party: May 2012
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MACC JS Blog Party. Welcome to the Mount Annan Christian College Junior School Teacher Blog. Thursday, May 3, 2012. Daily 5 as a Teaching Learning Project at MACC. We have set Daily 5 up as a Teaching and Learning Project at MACC. We believe so greatly as a whole staff that the success of Daily 5 to date is worth tracking and worth reporting on. The aims for our project are as follows:. 1 To improve students motivation and stamina in Reading. Here are our four prongs:. 3 Reading Behaviour Rubrics. Of cou...
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MACC JS Blog Party: March 2012
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MACC JS Blog Party. Welcome to the Mount Annan Christian College Junior School Teacher Blog. Wednesday, March 7, 2012. SO MANY RESOURCES OUT THERE ON THE WWW! I found these great pages with links and documents galore to do with Daily 5. This first link is terrific. Http:/ k-5literacyconnections.weebly.com/daily-5.html. There are some videos to watch as well as some scheduling examples for 60 and 90 minute Daily 5 activities. There are also some good links to word work activities. This is a wonderful reso...
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MACC JS Blog Party: September 2012
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MACC JS Blog Party. Welcome to the Mount Annan Christian College Junior School Teacher Blog. Monday, September 3, 2012. CHAPTER 4 - CAFE. This Chapter focuses on how to conference with Students. The sisters realized the need for students to set their own goals for reading and the need for more explicit teaching of how to reach their goals. The biggest shift for a teacher in doing conferences is that they move around to meet with the student, the student doesn’t come to them. By using the CAFÉ board it ga...
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MACC JS Blog Party: October 2012
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MACC JS Blog Party. Welcome to the Mount Annan Christian College Junior School Teacher Blog. Friday, October 12, 2012. Chapter 7 - Strategy Groups. Chapter 7 begins with a story about a hairstyle. This certainly had my attention! It was using the image of an old hairdo to discuss how many years of making do with a ‘spray and pray’ method of doing hair had resulted in years of damage. The strategy groups is the part of the CAFÉ program that most teachers find challenging. (It’s not just me! Strategy group...
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MACC JS Blog Party: August 2012
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MACC JS Blog Party. Welcome to the Mount Annan Christian College Junior School Teacher Blog. Sunday, August 5, 2012. Chapter 3 - CAFE Step by Step. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a detailed step-by-step explanation of how to implement CAFÉ. The clearer our understanding of why we do what we do and how to do it, the greater success we are likely to have. Chapter 3 is the fi. Rst really meaty chapter in the book. Because. Here is so much detail and direct. Tune In to Interesting Words. During th...
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MACC JS Blog Party: CHAPTER 6 - Whole-class instruction
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MACC JS Blog Party. Welcome to the Mount Annan Christian College Junior School Teacher Blog. Friday, October 12, 2012. CHAPTER 6 - Whole-class instruction. This chapter gives an insight into how the sisters implement whole class strategy lessons which typically in a primary classroom occur three times each day. These include one strategy from Comprehension, one from Accuracy and one from either Fluency or Expanded Vocabulary. With what brain researchers say about the limited attention spans of students i...
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MACC JS Blog Party: June 2012
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MACC JS Blog Party. Welcome to the Mount Annan Christian College Junior School Teacher Blog. Tuesday, June 12, 2012. As we head towards the end of our first Semester of implementation with the Daily 5 and for some of us CAFE as well, it seems like a natural point to stop and reflect on what we have noticed in our classes and across our school. I know, that I know, that I know, that the change is HUGE! To say we are better Literacy teachers as a result of our research and implementation of Daily 5 and CAF...
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MACC JS Blog Party: February 2012
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MACC JS Blog Party. Welcome to the Mount Annan Christian College Junior School Teacher Blog. Monday, February 20, 2012. Kelly put together a great box for Word Work last week with a variety of activities for children to use. The set up is excellent and there are a great range of activities that involve sensory experiences as well. Take a look below. Can't wait to here how the children use this box Kelly. Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Word Work and Work on Writing. 8203;...These seem to be the rounds...