SPS T2 Cluster- Create Workshop

Yesterday we were hosted by the wonderfully resourced Stonefields Primary School for our Manaiakalani PD workshops focusing on the Create part of the Learn, Create, Share pedagogy. I registered for Marie Hiddleston's workshop on using materials and iPads to create learning for Junior's. She started with a literacy topic on Autumn as her students had been read a poem. Then they talked about the leaves changing colour on the trees and went to collect some leaves to make doubles to ten. She then showed the children a stencil outline of a balck silohette tree and expalained in their picture they needed to include the grass, the sky and the branches of the tree. They began by using water colours and then used finger painting for the red and yellow leaves. The end result looked so creative! The next idea was to use a small hessian sheet as a background and paint onto it using kiwiana templates such as a koru, tiki, pohutakawa flower, native birds etc. I am considering using this for Matariki... The last ideas were to focus on mathematical language to create a city landscape using coloured A4 card, felt marker pens and stickers. I did not complete my one, but started it to use as an example. The teacher then leads a discussion around positional language such as which building is the tallest, shortest, highest? How many windows are there, can you count in 2's? How many buildings are there altogether? There was also weaving coloured paper for over and under concepts and creating a pattern such as found in harakeke or flax weaving. Thank you so much to Marie for sharing her knowldege and expertise. I will definitely be implementing these in the second part of term 2 as we have been focusing on Geometry in Maths.