How did the swapping of mail with another class add value to the GNZW experience?
swapping the mail gave us the authentic audience that sometimes the work we do in class is lacking. It really encouraged the students to do their best.
“My Year 5s enjoyed making the class poem and getting the word bank together around the objects from the tin. They loved writing their own poems and we had some amazing poetry created.”
How did the swapping of mail with another class add value to the GNZW experience?
They loved reading what someone else had written, and many now know the meanings of new words, eg flogging, mugger, walking the plank, criminal... Lots of fun
“My class enjoyed the colour poem writing, which we published as a class, and read to junior classes.
They found the anagram poems more difficult, and we will work further on learning what a metaphor is. They felt success once theirs was written (and relief?!)”
How did the swapping of mail with another class add value to the GNZW experience?
Students love being able to send their work off (they were extremely proud) and to see what other people had created.
“Students and I loved this activity we got thinking about new and exciting sticky words. Got them thinking about poetry in a different way also!”
How did the swapping of mail with another class add value to the GNZW experience?
The children loved receiving a parcel from another school. They read every postcard and have put them up in our classroom.
“This kit was vastly engaging. The idea of writing about the object, the lead up activities and the structure of writing were excellent. Thank you so much School Kit. As always, as a teacher I like to reflect, I would make sure that we started this project a week earlier than we did.”
How did the swapping of mail with another class add value to the GNZW experience?
My students were so excited to receive our parcel from our Buddy School. They were very appreciative of the extra work our Buddies had put into the poster decorating it and adding photos to it. It also gave them a reason to put a bit more effort into thei
“Initially the new look Get NZ Writing Kit appeared to be quite complex, but working through it, step by step was easy. Our colour poem was amazing. Continuing through the steps to fill in the Class Poem Sheet to send to our Buddy class was much less time consuming than the previous school kit and became the focus for two writing lessons. Completing the word bank activities became much easier because a colleague shared their amazing template online. Putting the poems together from the word bank was fun!”
How did the swapping of mail with another class add value to the GNZW experience?
They loved getting the mail and were interested in reading what other children had written
“They loved putting the pieces together to see the large picture The items in a tin were a real hit, the visuals made their writing and adjectives quite amazing and were a great introduction to adjectives. Personally, I as the teacher, found the download instructions quite confusing and wondered if I had done it correctly and if I should have included anything else in the package.”
How did the swapping of mail with another class add value to the GNZW experience?
Great, all completed.
“Hi,
The resources and lesson ideas were great this year. The only feedback is I notice there was confusion about sending the colour poem to the other school, I didn't send mine as on the facebook page people said you didn't, so felt bad when I was sent one from the other school.”
How did the swapping of mail with another class add value to the GNZW experience?
it gave a real purpose to the exercise and the children were so excited to receive their mail in return.
“The children loved the colour poem and the objects, but the whole concept of the Slam poem was a very difficult concept. We were all trying to work out the connection between the poems and the big poster! It seemed a bit disjointed. However the language and the collaboration that came out of it was fantastic. Thank you.”
