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Last weeks' drop-in

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Dawn Finlayson

Monday 06 February 2006

Enjoyed the drop-in with Anne last Thursday. I was disappointed that Heather wasn't able to make it this time, as she was in Dunbar High all day doing the transition thing. It's always nice to be able to chat over things afterwords, different when you are just relaying them to people.

It was interesting to hear the different ways people are approaching it. I had never really thought about how much time reading was taking up, ( I have 7 reading groups just now, hear them all twice a week) but hearing other people discuss the situation with their reading that they are struggling with made me think about it a bit more. Have decided with Elizabeth to keep things pretty much as they are with the reading for now, with the possibility of changing it later on. But it gave food for thought...

Mentioned to Anne about the possibility of having a group of teachers who have composite classes, rather than just in year groups, as Heather and I feel that would be very useful, both for us and when we do the presentation at the end, for other teachers in small schools. Seems like it is a possibility. Also spoke with a teacher from Humbie (I think!) who seemed quite keen on that idea.

Writing tomorrow...planning to use a 'badly' written piece as a model and use talking partners to find out what is wrong with it, (grammar wise really, we need to work on our finger spaces and sentences!) and then use the corrected version as a writers craft piece to be continued. I'm hoping it will point out to the kids that they need to think about their capital letters and full stops as well as all their great ideas!

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