Term 4 - Lockdown!

 Wowee, what a year so far.

I never would have thought that this lockdown would go for so long, however I feel very blessed to work alongside teachers that want the best for our learners.  Our kids have been attending our online meets.  That's right all our learning is online, lucky we're a digital school ;)

In our Year 7&8 block we are planning collaboratively and all of our learning for our children goes on our class site.  We generally have 3 google meets a day; Team Assembly, Literacy and Maths.  We also have tech meets, home class meets, Hauora/Well being meets and my favourite; Electives.  Click here for an example of what we do for electives.

If I've written to much and you have got bored, atleast READ THIS part below, these are games/activities that have really helped our team during lockdown.  Use them if, like us you are in lockdown!

Things that have helped us:

Scattergories Game - Cast this screen on your meet and get the kids to guess the answers.

Kahoot - If you haven't already heard of this, Google it. My kids love it!

Electives - Teach something your passion about, learners choose what they want to do.

Bus Stop - Short version of Scattegories, make your own categories, only do 4, when they have it, they yell "Bus Stop".

Karaoke - Put a YouTube video on and see if kids know the next words.

TikTok - Learn a short dance together.

Drama - Act out a scene on the meet (my learners love this, especially the boys)!

Drawing - Put a YouTube tutorial video up and just have time to chat.

As teachers we always firstly cater for the wellbeing of our children, during lockdown should this change?

Absolutely not, if anything we should be catering for it more now than ever.  Let's make sure as a team of teachers in Aotearoa that we aren't forcing learning upon our children, remember to check in, still have time for your learners, have a laugh, spend an extra 5 minutes on your meet playing an extra game, our learners will appreciate it!

PLEASE if you have anything else that your learners have enjoyed, comment below, lets share, we are all here for our tamariki!

Lessgo, we got this!