TALKATIVE YAMIN!

Child: Yamin Date: August 2013 Written by: Teacher Natasha Kia ora/As-salamu alaykum Yamin and whnau, Wow Yamin your vocabulary continued to expand at a quick rate this month! Every morning you come in to the over two classroom and greet me in a great big happy voice, telling me what has happened this morning at home or on your journey to school. At group time you are contributing more vocally, as well as initiating conversation with your peers. Review of Learning Yamin I am so impressed to hear you expressing your feeling and ideas more, this demonstrates the disposition of confidence. Along with communicating more, you are also confident to approach peers and teachers to initiate conversations. This has resulted in you having more courage, curiosity, trust and playfulness as you take an interest and choose what and who to be involved with during free choice time. Where to next? Now that Yamin is increasing his confidence in communicating, his teachers will begin to focus on his English language while continuing to support his contributions. We plan to do this by ensuring smaller group time opportunities and plenty of free choice time is provided. This will encourage Muaz to continue building meaningful relationships and practice his communication, in particular conversational language with peers at a similar level to him. This will allow scaffolding and an ako approach to take place. By this we mean as a learner he will gain more language skills by a more experienced/skilled friend, while also being a teacher for his less experienced/skilled friends being the learner and teacher at the same time ensuring his confidence is maintained. His teachers will continue to role model a wide variety of vocabulary, and engage him daily in various conversations.

Where to next? Fawwaz, I can see from your great enjoyment in this story telling sessions you have a love for books and plan to scaffold your knowledge through this emerging interest. I would like to further engage you through stories and books to increase your vocabulary and early literacy skills.