5 year old visitors

June26


One of the other teachers at school brought her students (5 year olds) to visit in our class. As there are only 6 students in her class at the moment we put one in each of the 6 class groups.

I had found some online maths activities for them to do together.

It was fascinating to watch my kids in action. I could tell which ones are used to working with younger children by the way they talked to them and helped them without taking over.

I shot a short video – I wanted to gauge noise level and also how connected everyone was to the task.


(I need to figure out angles in my classroom so I can fix a camera to a tripod and shoot a maths or reading/language lesson.)

by dragonsinger posted under classroom2.0, collaboration | 2 Comments »
2 Comments to

“5 year old visitors”

  1. June 26th, 2009 at 4:25 pm       Tina Donnell Says:

    Hi Jo, Great to see your hub of computers in action. It looks like a practical set up to me.
  2. June 26th, 2009 at 11:18 pm       dragonsinger Says:

    I will have to do a little tweaking over the holidays but seems to be working well.

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