April 14th, 2008
Last week of term, where did the time go?
We're going to do a real push for topic this week and hopefully get our posters finished by the end of the week so we can present them on Friday.
We've finished our Tapa prints. I'm going to get them framed and take photos to put up on our Wikispace.
As part of our ICT drive, I've also decided to make a blog that will be solely for the children to update and manage (with my help). I will be encouraging the children to take photos of what they're up to during class time, and hope to give them a little time every week to ge some journal entries together with their photos. We may even get savvy enough to make a video or two and put them up (eventually). Small steps. I will be keeping an eye and making sure that only those children whose parents gave permission for their photos to be on a class blog have their photos up there. I will be talking to the children also about their being a first-name-only policy when using the Internet. Or maybe they could all come up with aliases? Wouldn't that be fun!
At the end of this week I won't be sending home a book - but please do keep up with the reading during the holidays, even if it's you reading them a bedtime story for 15 minutes every night.
Oh, and to give fair warning - next term, in Week 1, Room 19 will be hosting the school assembly. We'll be showing our Tapa prints and maybe even one or two topic presentations, depending on how well they go.
We're going to do a real push for topic this week and hopefully get our posters finished by the end of the week so we can present them on Friday.
We've finished our Tapa prints. I'm going to get them framed and take photos to put up on our Wikispace.
As part of our ICT drive, I've also decided to make a blog that will be solely for the children to update and manage (with my help). I will be encouraging the children to take photos of what they're up to during class time, and hope to give them a little time every week to ge some journal entries together with their photos. We may even get savvy enough to make a video or two and put them up (eventually). Small steps. I will be keeping an eye and making sure that only those children whose parents gave permission for their photos to be on a class blog have their photos up there. I will be talking to the children also about their being a first-name-only policy when using the Internet. Or maybe they could all come up with aliases? Wouldn't that be fun!
At the end of this week I won't be sending home a book - but please do keep up with the reading during the holidays, even if it's you reading them a bedtime story for 15 minutes every night.
Oh, and to give fair warning - next term, in Week 1, Room 19 will be hosting the school assembly. We'll be showing our Tapa prints and maybe even one or two topic presentations, depending on how well they go.
