So hard to believe that the 2025 school year is upon us! I graduated from university in 2000, which makes this my 25th year as a teacher! I have been teaching in New Zealand for 14 years, after teaching in the USA for the first 11.
I am very much looking forward to this year once again working with Year 4 students as they begin their Chromebook journey. We will also be using PRIME Maths for the frist time this year and I am excited to see what this will actually look like for my Year 4 students. The process to determine which book level they will each use is underway with a placement test and then we will use those results to determine their learning level.
This term, I will also be spending 4-5 weeks trialing the new Year 4-6 BSLA (Better Start Literacy Approach) with my literacy students. We will be spending a week or so looking into some "previoius knowledge" they would generally have after completing the first 3 years of BSLA and then we will move into 4 weeks of actual lessons.
The hope is that later this year, I will be part of the group of Year 4-6 teachers being trained to teach the full BSLA program and continue the BSLA learning that our students are receiving in the junior school.
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