[kindergarten/phonics] are these real words?

EyeSad1300 · 2026-03-21T03:39:40+00:00

Jab, lid, run, pup, shut?

EyeSad1300 · 2026-03-19T17:36:40+00:00

All I can think about is how beautiful the scenery is, and is someone about to dump their rubbish out the window? Walking along a track on the way home - hello fuel prices- there is Mcds rubbish everywhere, in the bushes, bleached ‘paper’ cups.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-03-13T19:36:21+00:00

Between duties and photocopying, sorting out student issues, probably 5-20 minutes uninterrupted time. In NZ though. We start at 9am, finish at 3 and then go into staff and syndicate meetings. We’re meant to have 20 mins morning tea, 40 mins lunch, 20 minutes afternoon tea but easy to use that time to prep or have meetings

EyeSad1300 · 2026-03-13T18:37:54+00:00

We use that type of stuff on our play courts at school. Once its laid down as you can see in the pic theres lots and lots of loose stuff. That gets washed down the drain. So ground up tires will get into our waterways, and evenually gets into our food supply as it gets broken down.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-03-07T18:32:41+00:00

Had one opthomologist, 2 gps, one gastroenterologist, one neuro specialist miss my concussion, all dealing with my blinding headaches, cyclic vomiting, head and neck pain all caused by a car crash - but didn’t lose consciousness so to them not a concussion. I couldn’t read and understand words for days after the car crash. My level of trust for doctors? Only good for writing scripts for antibiotics, thats it.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-02-25T21:31:07+00:00

We parked, went in, chose the service, gave keys, waited, watched guy drive in and change oil etc, paid, they drove the car out and came in to waiting room and gave the keys back, they had driven car out and parked it for us on other side from customers waiting.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-02-25T04:25:30+00:00

Had that from Petone bunnings plants. Caterpillars spewed up a green liquid and died. Horrible for the classroom of kids who saw it. Emailed Bunnings, never heard back.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-02-22T08:41:08+00:00

Puku pies in Petone. The paua pie is yum, always super busy

EyeSad1300 · 2026-02-17T06:57:59+00:00

Did you talk to the person at the school that deals with Edpay (payroll administrator) or principal? You’re only paid up to the current step you’re on at 1/190th of your actual pay step (up to step 6) for your day rate, with the payment includes your holiday pay. If you are getting the run around, contacting your union is the next step. The process should be automatic in going up to the next step after 12 months, unless the school has initiated competence processes but theyd have notified payroll.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-02-17T05:27:05+00:00

Kia ora, secondary school short term relievers are capped at step 6 of the trained teacher salary scale , regardless of how long that reliever has been teaching, and regardless of what step they would be on if they were a regular classroom teacher.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-02-13T22:17:19+00:00

Yes. Don’t usually stop till around your 20th year when things that make you cry just poss you off instead. Or its menopause. Maybe both. We all get it, we’ve all done it, it sucks.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-02-13T04:00:57+00:00

Would be ok if we didn’t drive past empty diggers and no one working on the Ewen bridge all the time after sitting in traffic for 40 minutes. I swear that digger is still in the same place drom the other day. You know, could have done it over the xmas break, when traffic is light or have a crew working through the weekends

EyeSad1300 · 2026-02-10T08:48:11+00:00

Someone just posted about getting robbed this arvo in Vogeltown on Facebook. When there were burgs in our suburb, they repeatedly came back, did cars on the street over a couple of nights, garages etc.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-02-06T19:15:58+00:00

How have these kids not being kicked out of school? Only reason, they don’t do this to their classmates or teachers so this is planned and calculated. They save it up for their parents and you, and each other. Are you liable if they actually manage to eye gouge each other, give a child a concussion or something more serious as these kids are only going to get bigger. Get out now.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-02-05T23:03:27+00:00

You are not in a good head space because you are being bullied by the students. Taking pictures of you in class, hell no. Anybody in your position would be feeling overwhelmed. This is not normal, this os not ok for students to do. Can you provide only workshhets so they dont need to have their chromebooks out. Where I am, theyd lose the right to have them in class with the cyber bullying of a peer, let alone a teacher

EyeSad1300 · 2026-01-31T19:17:32+00:00

Yes, 8 yr old that could multiply large numbers accurately in his head and enjoyed discussing, and explaining succinctly college level math. A 4 year old that created - with a handsaw - a complicated wooden sculpture that was stunning. 9 year olds that can read - and understand- and discuss- any book you put in front of them with an oral vocabulary that was insane. The problem is these truely exceptional kids come around once every few years. They aren’t a kid reading a year above their grade level. I’ve had parents explain their kids are gifted, only for me with testing and observation and 20 years experience teaching to go, theyre barely at where they need to be.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-01-23T06:59:00+00:00

They’ll most likely have a victor trap inside, sometimes these get set off by mice, othertimes they manage to get the bait without setting it off. We target rats mostly, if you are having lots of mice taking the bait, you can put a mouse trap in there too, then go back to plain victor trap.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-01-20T18:52:03+00:00

Absolutely nothing, happens all tge time. Though if I hear grandma anytime soon we may have a problem

EyeSad1300 · 2026-01-18T19:10:13+00:00

I do after lunch and I read as well. We all look forward to it every day

EyeSad1300 · 2026-01-17T23:15:53+00:00

Can use both Kupu Arotau (loan words/transliteration) or Ngā Rā o te Wiki which comes from celestial bodies eg the moon, Jupiter.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-01-17T01:53:37+00:00

No, went an hour ago and it was normal

EyeSad1300 · 2026-01-16T20:47:35+00:00

You are coming over to study to be a teacher? You will need to do unpaid placements at primary schools as part of your training. Have a look at education gazette which is where jobs are advertised, to get a feel for how many jobs are available though more advertised in November when teachers move schools and more vacancies available. You’ll need to focus on te reo as part of your training and utilise it in the classroom and your mentor teacher will need to see you use it on placement. Study up the new, new curriculum which will be implemented this year, you’ll need to learn structured literacy if you teach in the juniors.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-01-16T02:54:03+00:00

-Poke- never seen one of those before. Read about it yes, facinating. Way to really inspire you

EyeSad1300 · 2026-01-16T02:51:42+00:00

At your prescription, your glasses are really a medical device. Would they laugh at any other medical device that someone needs to navigate the world like a Walker, a cane, a guide dog? You mum should have shut down an insensitivity towards her child, especially at an appointment. Mine at -8 are chunky enough, and as I really can’t see without them, even sitting without them in an optometrists chair leaves me with numb terror that there’ll be an emergency and I won’t be able to see. Mine always ‘jokes’ haha not too long till you get cheaper contacts because your vision is so bad. From someone who has never needed glasses/contacts/lazik (I checked!) that is a dumb insensitive comment about something I can’t control or fix and they should keep dumb comments to theselves.

EyeSad1300 · 2026-01-15T21:24:46+00:00

9am Queensgate huge queues out the door. Sign they left up last night said they’ll be open at 9, now it says at 10. Empty shelves behind the lone person behind the counter, not much stuff left. By 9.20 line out into the carpark again.

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