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The beginning of our inquiry ’Art from the Heart!’ After our inquiry launch the students began coming up with lots of questions about art and communication through art! These weren’t even all of them 😄 Hillpark School Brittany Reekie #NPDL

So true! I love reading to my class and often read to them 3 times a day as they beg me to keep reading our @ChapterChatY3_4 book!

Using the moment! Somehow still-life art and free bananas to school happened the same day. What better still model than a free banana. Right then vocabulary like shadows, shading, angles made more sense for these learners. Hillpark School NPDL #artfromtheheart

I love hearing that my students are enjoying #chapterchat as much as I am!

Today in Room 20 we experimented with colour and how we can show emotions using these different colours and patterns. Can you tell which is which? Joy, anger, disgust and fear? Hillpark School

Testing out Flox stencils! #NPDL

More stencil practice in Room 20 today! Getting ready to create our native forest stencils for our finally piece. Hillpark School

For writing today we got a chance to head outside, lay on the grass and use our sense of touch and smell to describe what it felt like to lay on the grass. After this they did the same thing in teams around the school and we had to guess where in the school they were describing.

Loving using #bookcreator in class today. What an awesome and engaging way to get kids writing/publishing their writing. Book Creator from Kami Hillpark School

A bit of holiday reading kicking off. I’m getting excited to start planning my new routines in my new classroom! #daily5

Today at the Hillpark School PL we learnt about how we can best help our pasifika students to feel included within our classroom. Activities like this can help every student feel connected and you learn lots about who they are as a person and where they came from. #tapasā

Amazing!! Is all I can say about #TheReadingBook. This book holds so many ideas for how reading can be taught by teachers and learnt by students. Super excited to setup my reading program! Hillpark School Emma Ritzema-Bain

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