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The conversations around these tiles and kids retelling me the whole movie story has been amazing. Lots of my kids struggle with their oral language but these tiles were a great motivation! Thanks so much.
“Wow! The kids absolutely loved these and so many bought their ones in to the classroom to add to our collection. We made a picture graph as we opened the first 50. Then we started sorting them into the movies to see if we had all the different tiles. Out of the 100 we only ended up with one Kristof which started a discussion about how some are harder to get - so maths objective for level one probability covered!
Once they were all opened I just put them out with no other resources for the kids to explore. They mainly stayed on the picture side.
Next I put them out with the whiteboards and pens and demonstrated how I could spell my name and then write it on the board - away went the kids and then they started spelling other words as well. One girl even had a whole word family going - cat hat mat sat fat.
The next step was to introduce the food side of the kit. So I put out the fishing lines and the shopping list cards. The kids are used to playing bingo and they played with the cards this way too.
This was the most popular way to play with the tiles - they loved that they stuck to the magnetic fishing lines!”
“We've been having so much fun using this resource! Today we fished for our letters and built our sentences, it inspired so much conversation! Thank you School Kit”
“Thank you School Kit - you never fail to impress! My little people have been loving going ‘fishing’ for tiles and building up their letter recognition and sound knowledge. Thanks for this awesome junior kit”
“So exciting...we can almost spell all our names with our tiles. We've been so lucky and have been given lots of extras tiles from those who aren't collecting them. We are also spelling some sight words. So much fun for my Y0/1 class.”
Tell us about an unexpected outcome from having used this kit.
Students have used and recognised both the letters and vocabulary, but also have loved discussing the characters that are on each of the tiles.
“Students love exploring this resource. It is a fun and interactive way to inspire their literacy as well as all things food. It has been the basis of writing in the classroom, and the literacy kit has been a support for spelling, inspiration for students and also fun with the games. Children have shown collaboration, enjoyment and letter-sound knowledge.”
“Room 2 at Te Awamutu Primary School are loving the countdown kit. They loved finding out what tiles we had (probably not as excited as I was though lol). Their favourite activity was the crazy sandwich. They thought it was great fun making random crazy sandwiches, and also getting to use the little fishing rods. This kit has been great to help our children with letter identification, and also with their letter sounds. Thank you School Kit for this amazing opportunity and ki”
“Thanks School Kit Squad and Countdown for the amazing tiles kit! Room 5 at Te Awamutu Primary School have been so engaged! We have been thinking and writing about shopping, matching the letters and writing our lists and making crazy sandwiches!!! We even made a delicious slice from some secret ingredients that arrived this morning!!!! Well done, thanks, you’ve hit the spot again!!!!”
