Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Setting SMART goals

Helping my students set goals the smart way

We have been talking in class about setting goals for reading, writing and mathematics. There are lots of other things we could set goals for. These are just three.

This powerpoint can be helpful for you to write smart goals. Have you worked out what SMART stands for? Watch the power point and maybe you will find out.

Some sentence starters are good to use too.

My goal in reading is ......
By the end of term two I want to....


The next thing to think about is "How will I achieve this goal" This means thinking about what are some things you need to work on related to the goal. These are called Next Steps.

You will see me....
I will use...
I will use my reading comprehension strategies to....
I am learning to...
It is important that I....

I have read through all of your initial goal setting and I think with some more tweaking you can make your goals

  • Specific
  • Measureable
  • Achievable
  • Realistic
  • Time based
Good Luck!

Here is an example of a Reading Goal and its Next Steps

Reading Goal
By the end of term two I will be able to stop at words that I don't understand or cannot say and think about them.

Next Step
You will see me sound out the hard words and  read the words around the difficult word in the sentence to gain meaning. Then read the whole sentence again.




Can't wait for camp!

I can't wait for camp. I hope it's gonna be fun there. I hope I overcome my fear of heights and other stuff.The two things I really want to try is archery and the food. The first thing I want to try I want to try is the food because I recently heard that the food was awesome so I switched archery to the second thing I wanted to try at camp. I can't believe that it's 2 weeks away because there are some things I don't want to try at camp like mountain biking because I don't like to bike that much. I can't wait to try new things at camp.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Liam Overmeyer's Fund Raising for Cancer

I just found out yesterday that our very own Liam will be shaving off his awesome hair to raise money for cancer. Liam is a very brave boy. I couldn't do that. Yes I literally couldn't do that.

Here is the link to his fundraising page. From there you can make a pledge and it tells you when it will be happening. Let's support Liam and all the kids and families who deal with cancer.

http://www.fundraiseonline.co.nz/LiamOvermeyer/



I just donated $20. But I want my pledge to be used to try and get Liam to not shave his hair. That way we could start a battle of payments for and against shaving his hair thereby raising double the amount. His goal is $500. Come on people!!!