Cultural Responsiveness
We looked at our goals from last year and then I reflected upon where I got to with this. I celebrated more language weeks and am trying to slowly use more vocab in the classroom in terms of Maori language first and then bring in other cultures that are in our classroom. We also put out a survey for all the families to be able to share all the things that are important in terms of their culture. We used this to fill in our know the learner slides so we know what is important to celebrate within the classroom.
Setting up for Success
As part of starting the year off well and setting our classrooms up for success we set up our cultural wall and worked through some activities to think about our cultures. We created this cool display where they have their work showing their country's flag. We emphasised New Zealand Culture first, as we are all New Zealanders. We worked through this slideshow. Looking at all the different cultures represented in our class.
Te Reo Language
We focused on some basic Te Reo work this term. We spent a bit of time on our classes and used an activity in particular that Lee-Anne had given to us at the teacher only day. We added to the sorting by also including the faces of people in the school. The students have loved interacting with this on the wall. We also worked on greetings and have added another karakia to our everyday by having the karakia kai also (as well as our morning and end of the day karakia). We continue to work on adding more Te Reo throughout the day.
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