What happens in a reading lesson in Rereroa and Awarua?

When we do pānui (reading), we read with a teacher every day.  When we are not with the teachers, there are lots of different activities for us to do to boost our mileage and reading stamina.  Mileage is a fancy way of saying get lots of reading under your belt and stamina is when we can read for longer and longer periods of time.  Have a look at us doing our learning during pānui:

This group is listening to reading.  They are listening to a picture book being read aloud.

This group is doing a teacher task with one of our amazing teacher aides, Lindah.  It is a follow up after we read with our teacher.

We are researching how to tag monarch butterflies after reading about how to do it with our teacher.  Our next step is to order the tags, and then tag the butterflies after they hatch from the chrysalis.

We are working on independent reading and building our mileage.

We are researching what goes in the compost, and what goes in the bin.  They will be working on this for a few days until they are reading to introduce and teach the whole group about how to use compost bins in our classrooms.

I am choosing a book to read from our school library boxes.

When we do a great job of finding clues to help us work out tricky words, we might be the reading detective of the day.

We are sharing a book and doing our read with a buddy activity.

 We are reading with a teacher.  Any guesses about why Whaea Helga has that headband on?

We are working on our spelling, and finding words that have a magic Y in it (both a vowel and a consonant).

I am working on independent reading.

We are reading independently, and some of us are working on our spelling.