Meeting Type
Prime Maths Introduction with Svend from Scholastic
Points to Note

• You should have around 4 groups in your class, with around 6-8 children per group.
• Concrete examples and materials used first with the course book. Then pictorial concepts are shown to the students. Then abstract - numbers and equations in the practise book part. 
• Learning progressions - what we are teaching and in what order. 
• Same language used in all the books as they progress through year levels at school and the Prime books. 
• Prime is designed so children will apply their number knowledge to strand - learn a concept and then apply it in a strand context.

Meeting Type
Prime Maths Introduction with Svend from Scholastic
Points to Note

• You should have around 4 groups in your class, with around 6-8 children per group.
• Concrete examples and materials used first with the course book. Then pictorial concepts are shown to the students. Then abstract - numbers and equations in the practise book part. 
• Learning progressions - what we are teaching and in what order. 
• Same language used in all the books as they progress through year levels at school and the Prime books. 
• Prime is designed so children will apply their number knowledge to strand - learn a concept and then apply it in a strand context.
• More photocopiable pages in back of Teacher Guide.
• White pages are teacher lessons, grey are for practise. 
• Yellow pages for teacher scripts. 
• NZ expectation is to get through about 1 - 1.5 groups per year, not 2 like Singapore. 
• Continue with normal Math Tumble stuff when students not with me - Mathletics, basic facts practise, math games etc. 
• Scholastic Learning Zone has all the books on an interactive whiteboard platform to show students. 

How will it help me?
I'm feeling like I have a bit more clarity with this extra explanation. It still feels like I will learn best by just doing, and talking with other colleagues as we go.
So What?

Time to start applying my new understanding when I teach Prime daily in the classroom. This means keeping my two groups per day, and slowing it down and really going back to using lots of equipment and having students to use the equipment to show me their understanding. I need to set up some better maths tumble activities for seniors so that the children are still engaged in maths when not with me.

Meeting Type
Prime Maths Introduction with Svend from Scholastic
Points to Note

• You should have around 4 groups in your class, with around 6-8 children per group.
• Concrete examples and materials used first with the course book. Then pictorial concepts are shown to the students. Then abstract - numbers and equations in the practise book part. 
• Learning progressions - what we are teaching and in what order. 
• Same language used in all the books as they progress through year levels at school and the Prime books. 
• Prime is designed so children will apply their number knowledge to strand - learn a concept and then apply it in a strand context.

How will it help me?
I'm feeling like I have a bit more clarity with this extra explanation. It still feels like I will learn best by just doing, and talking with other colleagues as we go.

So What?

Time to start applying my new understanding when I teach Prime daily in the classroom. This means keeping my two groups per day, and slowing it down and really going back to using lots of equipment and having students to use the equipment to show me their understanding. I need to set up some better maths tumble activities for seniors so that the children are still engaged in maths when not with me.

Kindness Focus for 2019

Title of Reading: How One Teacher Is Teaching Her Students To Be Kind. 

Author: By Janice Walton

Synopsis: Teaching kindness needs to be explicit, and can be planned, but can also be taught during incidental teaching times when they arise.

Motivation: Kindness improves test scores and contributes to students having a growth mindset. It needs to be included in our daily curriculum.

How will it help me? How has it helped me?
The classroom will continue to be a safe and happy space when we have a culture of kindness in the classroom. I need to model it explicitly myself, but also highlight when students are generous, gracious and kind to each other. I will look into the links shared in the reading (Classroom Dojo videos, TPT resources with Kindness Secret Agents etc) to add to my classroom. We already have a Warm Fuzzies container where students can write nice notes to each other and I will read them out every Friday. This brings lots of smiles to children's faces.

So What?
Continue to talk about kindness daily, and start to use some of the above-mentioned resources.