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| mccartney | Grade 5 Literacy | 0 | Oct 28 2007, 11:15 PM EDT by mccartney | ||||
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Thread started: Oct 28 2007, 11:15 PM EDT
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I have a terrific narrative writing guideline to help kids construct really interesting stories. I will bring it to our next Lit meeting to show everyone. After fairly ordinary spelling results in the AIM testing, I have been really working on targeting spelling in my whole group and small group writnig focuses. The kids have their own spelling lists and lately we've been having weekly spelling assessment tasks. It seems to be helping kids who continue to spell high frequency and common words incorrectly. Maybe we could revisit strategies we use in the classroom and share our knowledge of how to teach spelling more effectively?
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| Mrs.Davey | Footy finals game | 0 | Sep 19 2007, 10:59 PM EDT by Mrs.Davey | ||||
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Thread started: Sep 19 2007, 10:59 PM EDT
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I know this isnt about literacy, but i just wanted to thank trish and frank for showing us the footy finals game with maths 300. i played it today with my kids (somehow by chance i had exactly 16 kids at school, which made it easy to play in 2 groups) and the kids loved the game. We could have played it all afternoon. i showed them the program on maths 300 and they enjoyed that too. they are also keen to take a game board home to be able to play with their family.
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| mccartney | grade5rmc - Grade 5 Skype class account | 0 | Sep 13 2007, 11:10 PM EDT by mccartney | ||||
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Thread started: Sep 13 2007, 11:10 PM EDT
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Please add this name to your Skype names so that we can Skype in the future....now that we have webcams, its a great opportunity to get the kids communicating. Jess has a class Skype name, thechineseclassroom.
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| mccartney | Skyping with Deakin Student | 0 | Sep 13 2007, 11:08 PM EDT by mccartney | ||||
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Thread started: Sep 13 2007, 11:08 PM EDT
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On Wednesday Rebecca Lourey, and two West Warrnambool jstudents oined us in a half hour Skype chat.
Rebecca ran a get to know you activity, and then we tried to do a 'draw and talk 'activity where the kids could follow her instructions to draw a dog and a chicken. The kids had fun and learnt about the talk and draw feature in Skype. If you have not got the lastest version of Skype, (3.5) download it so you can try this too! Let me know if you'd like to do this with my class to give it a go. |
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| Mrs.Davey | integrated unit | 0 | Sep 12 2007, 8:39 PM EDT by Mrs.Davey | ||||
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Thread started: Sep 12 2007, 8:39 PM EDT
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Yesterday Trish, Julie and I started to plan a transport unit for next term using the planner given by lesley form the PD. The unit will cover past, present and futre transport, so if anyone has any great resources that we might be able to used that would be helpful, websites or books they have seen that we could use.
While looking for stuff in teh internet, I came acorss this scope and sequence plan by Doveton North Primary School. If you check it out you wil lsee they use throughlines, essential questions, unit questions etc. http://www.dovetonnorth.vic.edu.au/scopeandsequence.htm |
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| mccartney | Skyping and West Wiki's | 2 | Sep 11 2007, 2:13 AM EDT by mccartney | ||||
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Thread started: Sep 11 2007, 12:31 AM EDT
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Grade 5 are currently contributing to their story wiki with the 6 groups from West. They are discovering that it is important to use proper and polite language to communicate to people they don't know. e.g. Many have been a bit put out that the comments in their discussion page seem a bit gruff or rude.
We are Skyping with two Deakin students this week also. Beginning tomorrow, students will participate in a get to know you session with their student teacher, and several students from West. From there, students will be involved in ICT peer teaching via Skype and Wiki's. Should prove to be very useful and a lot of fun.
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| mccartney | Twilight Literact Meeting - Comprehension, Making Thinking Visible | 2 | Sep 11 2007, 12:20 AM EDT by mccartney | ||||
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Thread started: Sep 4 2007, 11:30 PM EDT
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This PD was held at Cafe Regal last night, and was run by Anne Hammond who has extensive literacy knowledge and experience, and like Carmel Crevola, spoke briefly about her various experiences in schools in the Bronx in the US. I know meetings at the end of the day, and during a busy week are a bit of a put off, but this was well worth it. Anne reinforced the value and importance of a lot of the terrific things we are all doing in the Literacy block, such as Literature Circles, Role plays and partner reading. She spoke about the importance of Whole Group book talk, the value of reading outloud to kids in upper grades, including a short period of sustained silent reading a couple of times each week, share time, and how to make thinking visible. Anne provided examples of prompts that encourage children to ask questions in their head while reading, or being read-to. She pointed out that often we are the ones with the questions for the students, and the students are expected to answer those questions. Whether teaching in Prep or grade 6, Anne implored teachers to make explicit what they want children to think about when reading text or listening to a story. I know when doing whole group reading I don't often don't take opportunities to allow students to consider what they see, what they think, what they wonder and why. Anyway, we can discuss this further if anyone wishes, but the hand out (a very good read) will be in your pigeonholes soon....so do look out for it!
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| mccartney | Show Case Success! | 1 | Sep 7 2007, 12:20 AM EDT by margm | ||||
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Thread started: Sep 4 2007, 11:49 PM EDT
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Well done P-6 staff and especially Marg, Ann and Jess for the fantastic P-6 ICT projects show cased on Monday. It was a great PR event and an eye opener to all involved. Its amazing to think how far we have all come! The skills and knowledge that our students have gained of the ever increasing technology resources available to them continually grows at break neck speed. The Grade 5 students had a brief reflection time after lunch, and without a doubt or dry eye, the grade 3/4 Photo Stories attracted the greatest interest!!!
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| Mrs.Davey | mondays showcase | 1 | Sep 7 2007, 12:10 AM EDT by margm | ||||
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Thread started: Sep 5 2007, 1:23 AM EDT
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Well done everyone!! from the dicussions i have had so far today it sounds like monday was great. i am very disappointed that i missed it. you should all be very proud of your selves and your students, everyone has worked really hard to ge this thing happening.
big congrats and thankyou to marg who has put a lot of effort in over the weeks to make sure everyone is on track, and to make sure everyone had food on monday, and for getting the finances and buying done. well done. i would love to see the work that the other classes did, so i may need to pop in when i have time to have a look at some of your students work. once again, well done all...
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| Mrs.Davey | Getting there... | 0 | Aug 29 2007, 1:18 AM EDT by Mrs.Davey | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 29 2007, 1:18 AM EDT
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well i am getting there with preparations for mondays showcase. i have made a photo story with gazza photos. Huge thanks to tara and felicity who recorded my kids saying things about gazza. it was a huge help and saved me stacks of time. thanks marg for letting them get out of class.
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| trishb | Wiki World! | 2 | Aug 26 2007, 11:03 PM EDT by trishb | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 21 2007, 4:15 AM EDT
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Well done everybody. You are all way ahead of me in Wiki world. You will notice that I ahev remebered my password and will invite you soon to our wiki site. Happy wikiing!
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| margm | Showcase countdown | 1 | Aug 26 2007, 5:44 AM EDT by Ms.Starling | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 24 2007, 10:42 PM EDT
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I am assuming that other people have a life and won't be reading this till Monday 27th, so if you are, we have 7 more sleeps till the showcase. Please rehearse what you are planning to do. I will organise the library availability, the smartboard and morning tea. I will also working with Wendy's kids as WS won' t be here next monday. You can take as long as you like to share with the parents, what it is that you have been doing. take time to take questions and allow the kids to do most of the talking. I will be back tomorrow (Tuesday 28th). WE have 2 30gig video Ipods already purchased, so think of ways in which you can be creative using these.
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| Ms.Starling | Yr3/4-Father's Day Photostories | 3 | Aug 24 2007, 10:36 PM EDT by margm | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 19 2007, 8:02 AM EDT
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Most children have now scanned their photos and inserted them into their photostories. Some kids are having trouble working out how to write their script. I am suggesting to do it as a "talking letter" to their Dad. Anyone got any other suggestions?
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| mccartney | Grade 5 | 6 | Aug 24 2007, 10:32 PM EDT by margm | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 16 2007, 6:46 PM EDT
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Grade 5 have started writing stories on their Wiki with kids from Kane's class at West.
We will showcase this project as well as games we play on the smartboard and several children will discuss the benefits of having this technology in our room.
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| Mrs.Davey | Art book | 1 | Aug 21 2007, 4:11 AM EDT by trishb | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 21 2007, 12:58 AM EDT
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I just found a book over in the library that i thought might be useful for people like me that sometimes stuggle to think of interesting art lesson ideas. It is called "Express Yourself! Activities and Adventures in Expressionism" (759.06 RAI) It is colourful and easy to follow, with lesson ideas based on differnt artists from that time.
I have borrowed the book out at the moment, but if you would like to have a look at it, its sitting on my desk.
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| Mrs.Davey | grade 2 show case | 1 | Aug 16 2007, 8:49 PM EDT by margm | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 15 2007, 10:31 PM EDT
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was planning on showing our gazza wiki for the showcase, i'll try and get some of the confident kids in my class to shw the different pages. by the time the date comes round gazza will be with the ogther school so hopefully we will have some info from them to show too.
I was wondering Marg, if you had some older kids that could help with putting a short video together for us, with the kids just saying a comment or something like that about the gazza experience. do you have kids that could put all the snippets of video comment together into one package?.....
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| margm | Wendy's kids - Father's Day photostories | 0 | Aug 15 2007, 10:21 PM EDT by margm | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 15 2007, 10:21 PM EDT
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This project is looking great. One student has recorded her voice over already and is looking at putting music behind her story. Many others have scanned their photos and are importing them into photo story, and the rest are still waiting on photos. Those kids who have imported their photos are required now to write a script before recording. The whole thing is looking good.
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| margm | Technolgy progress | 0 | Aug 15 2007, 10:18 PM EDT by margm | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 15 2007, 10:18 PM EDT
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please "Add A Comment" updating the group of your progress with your projects. There are some really exciting things happening across the school so I am looking forward to hearing about them all.
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| margm | artefacts project | 2 | Aug 13 2007, 11:32 PM EDT by margm | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 13 2007, 2:07 AM EDT
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http://www.teachnet.ie/jroberts/HTML/initial.htm
check out this website. This project sounds interesting - probably for classes grade 4 up, but who knows. Let me know if anybody wants to run with it. Just another possibility for using technology in our programs.
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| margm | Showcases - how are they going? | 0 | Aug 13 2007, 2:00 AM EDT by margm | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 13 2007, 2:00 AM EDT
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Hi guys. Just wondering if you need any help with planning your showcases for Monday 3rd Sept.? We have some great kids in year 8 who are willing to help out with podcasts or videoing etc. Just let me know.
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