Term 4 in Lockdown

The past few weeks have been the start of Term 4. We are now into week 4 and have been in lockdown for 12 weeks. My class has been going well and while some of the students have dropped off, we are still having a large amount of contributions to our online Google Meets. My students love to have a chat and interact with their friends during this time which is great to see as they are still able to maintain friendships with others. 

I have incorporated "Friday Fundays" into my online programme. This is gaining more engagement from students as we do riddles, creative tasks and fun activities every Friday. We also do daily Kahoot challenges/competitions which has been a big hit. I asked what type of quizzes they'd like to do and most answers were surrounded around movies, logos and Christmas. 

Each day we take a class photo of everyone who attended the Google Meet. This is then sent to them in an email and they are able to put these on their blogs. At the end of each email I make sure to include the amount of days until Christmas. My class loves this as each day we speak about how close we are to Christmas and they discuss what they are looking forward to. I do this to bring a more positive aspect to the current situation in Auckland.

I have also shared a few good pieces of news with the students and they absolutely love to hear this. For example I let them know that we are adding a puppy to our family at the end of the year and showed them a photo. They loved hearing about this and I received a few emails of their puppy name choices which was very lovely to see.

I can't wait to get back to school once we are able to. My class is excited also as they miss school at the moment.