Ursula Hellier is an experienced integration aide at Selby Primary School and also the artistic talent behind many of the colourful creations on display at the school.
She is the creator of many of the colourful and engaging visual messages around the school that support the school’s philosophy and teachers’ belief in the importance of [...]
Entries from June 2006
Artist at work at Selby Primary School
June 19th, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: teaching ideas
diary of a wombat
June 14th, 2006 · No Comments
Diary of a Wombat
Alice Dekkers (pictured here) graduated from the Bachelor of Teaching (primary/secondary) at Deakin University in 2005. In the unit ‘Language Education’, she created a wonderful handmade book based on the award winning Australian picture story book ‘Diary of a Wombat’ written by Jackie French and illustrated by Bruce Whatley (published in 2003 [...]
Tags: teaching ideas
recipe: fruit smoothies
June 2nd, 2006 · 2 Comments
Group size:
5 children and one adult (parent helper if possible)
Teaching resources:
Digital camera (optional)
Equipment:
smoothie maker or blender
extension power cord (if needed)
spoon
spatula
cleaning cloth and spray
cups (5 or more)
electric scales (optional)
measuring cup (optional)
Ingredients:
milk (eg a litre)
vanilla ice-cream (eg a litre)
fruit – such as 3 ripe bananas, lge can of apricots or peaches, etc
Method:
I like the freedom of students [...]
Tags: cooking with kids
cooking with kids
June 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
If you’ve been in any of my classes, you probably know that I’m a bit of a foody and love ‘exploiting’ cooking as a way of teaching language and using literacies for authentic purposes.
After surfing the web and finding that ‘cooking’ and ‘kids’ tended to bring up sites that were designed for parents cooking [...]
Tags: cooking with kids
a question about ’sight words’
June 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Q: I was just wondering are sight words just common words? Do they include the following: I, am, it, the, he, is?
A: For a history of the Dolch word lists, go to this US site. And then read about the different uses (misuses?) the term has been used for [...]
Tags: language learning
ask your questions here …
June 1st, 2006 · No Comments
Hi folks,
You can leave your comments or questions here if you want to ask about blogging, suggest resources, tell me about great things you have seen going on in schools, or request copies of material I have used in lectures or tutorials.
If you want to sign up for a blog, go to ‘blogroll’ (a category [...]
Tags: general chat here!
