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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How cool is this site turning out to be...!

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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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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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