Autumn Leaves

June13

Popping into school to do a quick job ended up being 4 hours – quite pleasantly spent pottering around tweaking a few things in the classroom and putting together our Autumn Leaves display.

We wrote Autumn cinquains and published them on leaves, which were then dyed, crumpled and cut out. We also did some leaf rubbings. A large piece of cardboard (thank you @invictus11 for the boxes) was painted brown first, then real leaves, leaf rubbings and the poems were hot glued onto the card. Finally the whole thing was put up (thank you staple gun!).

I tried gickr.com for the animation – it’s very easy to use and as you can see quite effective.

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I am a:

  • teacher
  • mother
  • musician
  • sci-fi fanatic
  • computer geek
  • geocacher
  • blogger
  • wannabe photog

I have a secret passion – well – maybe not so secret – teaching is not about feeding information into kids brains – it’s about creating a place where kids are inspired, enthused, excited about discovery and learning – so my goal as a teacher is to leave my kids wanting more and having the skills to find out more.

This year I’ve moved up a year level and am enjoying the more sophisticated conversations and explorations that we are having in the classroom. It’s exciting to see kids motivated because our classroom is using 21st Century tools for their everyday teaching and learning.

This blog is really for my reflective practise – about things that have worked (or not worked) in my classroom and to share these with others in my PLN.

I should also mention that I’m a Kiwi living in the North Island of New Zealand (just north of Wellington).

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