“There’s terrible evil in the world.” “It comes from men,” said Holly. “All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they’ve spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.” ― Richard Adams, Watership Down For… Read more Watership Down by Richard Adams – Pest Tales – English/Science/Art Project
Today Rahni, Olivia and Tilly spent the day with Mrs Booth and Rom while the seniors were on an excursion with Principal, Mrs Cavanagh. Mrs Booth had been inspired by the Bronwyn Bancroft art work from South Grafton Public School teacher Ms McLennan’s 1/2 class. So the day was themed around the fantastic picture book… Read more Our Bush Journey
During Literacy sessions, Rahni, Olivia and Tilly have been predicting, reading, analysing and reflecting on ‘The Paper Bag Princess’ written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko. Before reading the book (Mrs Cavanagh hid it from us) we analysed each picture, discussed what we thought was happening and wrote our interpretation of the story… Read more Paper Bag Princess
Over the past two weeks all our students have been creating ‘Paper Bag Characterisations’ a fantastic literacy idea inspired by Canadian teacher Jen Runde. The students selected a book and character of their choice and then composed their characterisations on their bags (I couldn’t find paper bags so chose gift bags instead). They needed to… Read more It’s in the Bag!
Crossmaglen Public School is a very small country school with currently 15 students K-6. This is not seen as an impediment to learning but rather a wonderful opportunity for all our students to engage with rich experiences such as the #walkmyworld digital literacy project. Having a principal that supports her teacher’s last minute ‘something just… Read more #walkmyworld with Alice Week 8
He said, “Goodbye, Moscow, nights like sable, mornings like the word persimmon.” Excerpt from The Seventh Night by Robert Hass The #walkmyworld week 6 challenge was a tricky one to adapt to a classroom that consists of 15 Kindergarten to Year 6 students but all the students engaged beautifully with the challenge and with wonderful outcomes.… Read more #walkmyworld 6 – Writing Alice into a Poem
Wednesday with Mrs Cavanagh and Mrs Booth are great days at Crossmaglen Public School. The children are split into literacy and maths groups for the first two sessions but the last lesson of the day is a whole school digital literacy session with Mrs Booth this term focusing on the #walkmyworld project. Mrs Booth takes… Read more #walkmyworld Wednesday
“Outside, white, patient animals, and tangled vines, and rain.” Excerpt from Sonnet by Robert Hass This week the challenge for our #walkmyworld week 4 project was to somehow link our *walk*to the work of Poet Laureate Robert Hass. Rahni, our youngest student, became photographer taking images of her school surroundings and she even found a… Read more #walkmyworld Week 4 with Rahni and Poet Laureate Robert Hass
This week all our students were introduced to a wonderful digital literacy project called #walkmyworld. Students each week will be learning digital citizenship skills as they join in sharing a *walk in their world*. We looked at the meaning of the word ‘Hashtag’ and how the symbol # is used to group ideas and information.… Read more #WALKMYWORLD Digital Literacy & Citizenship Project