Visual arts

Finally getting to put pictures of the visual arts resources we have in our library. Hope this helps.

Week 9. Some great ideas gleaned from PD and FB

A little reminder for programming.
When programming for writing look at the Overview of Genres' Structures and Features hand out that is in your Curriculum File.
There is a box for each genre that is headed Language features.  These should be the content of your guided writing - 'Formal English' sessions.  This information will support the child in the writing of this genre. Students should also be familiar with 'language' of the Purpose, Variations and Structural Features of the Genre.






A few little gems for the week.

Writing.


Using Four Square Plans when writing.


Reading.

Reading

Use the Jenga Maths idea for sight words.

Jenga Sight Words

SMART Exchange has a huge range of free interactive SMART Board resources.  There is a fantastic selection fo syllable sorting tasks.

SMART exchange




NQS

EYLF.

Culture.

Aboriginal Culture


Cultural Competence


Last year we identified the need to help children "just be".   Deep Listening.   Perhaps you could pull this into your RE Lessons.

Dadirri - Deep Listening



EYLF

Emotions. How to help

Spelling video. PLD

PP, Year One and Two.  A video about spelling that you may wish to share on your classroom blog.


Spelling in Junior Primary

Only want part of an online video to use for teaching?

EdPuzzle

Got a YouTube clip you use but don't want to use all of it? Then check out EdPuzzle.

You can clip the video, add questions and check for understanding. Magic.  Amie.

Fantastic

I recently came across an amazing website called Rewordify.com which can help students to  understand what they read. Paste any text or website into the box to rewordify the text into simpler language. Easier to understand words replace difficult text shown with highlighting. This is a fantastic tool for students trying to comprehend online information for research purposes, and will also help them to broaden their vocabulary.  Hope it's useful!  Amie.

Rewordify

Week 7. Term Two. Bits and Bobs...

Howard Gardner, in his writings on the Multiple Intelligence's reminds us that some children learn better through (and with)  musical experience. If you are like me you were not given the gift of musical talent, so for we less musically talented teachers this can be a challenge and a little help never goes astray.   The site below provides some classical music to use with literature.  This is a great way to enrich children's experiences.
Classical Music to go with Literature.


In my search for articles to help out a certain little man in my classroom I came across this article. Not really suitable for my use and pretty much Behaviour Management 101 but it may make useful "revision" reading.
Management In the Classroom.


Here are some spelling rules charts, as suggested by Fiona Glumac.
Spelling Rules


Evidently this style of  Sight Word warm up power point was suggested at the John Flemming Explicit Teaching PD recently.  Whilst I am cautionary about  John Flemming.  I do believe there is room for warm ups like this... I am looking for more exciting versions.  There are Apps for iPads that would be more interesting than this I am sure. The Fry Sight Words form the basis of the PLD sight word list. Use the MP4 Version.
Sight Word Warm up

A competition to design a google cover page.  Year 1 - 10.  How good would it be for OLC to win this!!  Come on... someone have a go.  You could do a writing activity to go with it!  Some reading and research maybe...   The lesson plan tab has some videos.  I haven't viewed them so you had better check the content first!
Doodle for Google

Happy weekend everyone,
Julie

Phonemic Awareness

We often see games and activities where spelling words  are broken up and put into boxes.
The attached link will give you some background to why we do this.  One of the major reasons for poor spelling is poor phonemic awareness.  There is a video on this link that will show you how to use Elkonin Boxes when conferencing students about their writing.  The Reading Rockets website has lots of great ideas on it....have a peruse while you are there.

Using Elkonin Boxes

Elkonin Boxes