A little help goes a long way!

Avron demonstrating how to play the game, read the word on the grid and get a point!

A grade 2 student playing racing game

As you may have read before, the GCU tutoring team are now attending a training program with International House in Cape Town. Last week saw the team in their 3rd workshop to date with Kerryn, Assistant Director of Studies. It was a blast with the focus of the workshop on how to deliver a lesson, it was great fun to pretend to be a kid again. It also got us all in the mood and really having fun which is what learning                                                        should be!

2 student compete in writing words

Monday has come and what better way to put the new skills to the test than to try it out on grade 2. We used an old lesson using 'sh', 'ch' and 'th' sounds in words for all our games. The children loved it and a little bit of competition really got them motivated. The first game of run and touch was a great way to get rid of some energy, introduce the sounds and test their listening skills, running round the classroom AND learning at the same time is definitely a winner. The lesson finished off with teams running to read a list of words and writing them on the board, it was a close call but group 1 just got the winning point with 4 points to 3. A truly successful lesson that everyone got involved in and more importantly gave a whole new meaning to the words fun and learning! As the title suggest a little training goes a long way for GCU and our tutors, thank you to IHS and well done to the tutors!

Run and touch the sound!

By Jennifer Pickett
GCU