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Archive for the ‘Fun stuff’ Category
Happy World Teachers’ Day
Posted by Lisa Hill on October 30, 2011
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Best wishes for the festive season
Posted by Lisa Hill on December 17, 2009
I have been so busy at school this last few weeks that I have not had time to even think about blogging, so I’d just like to end the school year by wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year.
BTW the little wooden manger you see here was made for me by my father over 30 years ago, when my son was very small. I love getting it out every Christmas because it reminds me of the things he made for my sisters and me at Christmastime when I was little, including most memorably a little wooden zoo and a farm. Whatever your beliefs at this time of the year, I hope Christmas brings you memories to treasure too.
And Santa, I’d like a million dollars, please, to invest for my school, so that we can buy a music teacher and an extra Reading Recovery teacher with the interest on the money!
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YABBA 2009
Posted by Lisa Hill on September 11, 2009
I just whipped up these two word searches using the books in the YABBA shortlist.
The first one is meant for Y3 & 4 and shouldn’t take the children long: this week’s lesson is going to be starting our bookmarks for the IASL Bookmark project and the word search is just an end-of-term fill in for fast finishers.
To see the shortlisted books and download other resources, visit the YABBA site.
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SLAV Bright Ideas
Posted by Lisa Hill on November 20, 2008
If you’re a teacher-librarian, a lover of books or anyone interested in Web 2.0 and the amazing resources it has to offer, then you really should subscribe to the SLAV Bright Ideas blog. It is through this blog, for instance, that I discovered the Google LitTrip site, and it is such fun! It’s the old literary journey idea, i.e. making a map of journeys taken by characters in a novel, updated for the 21st century, using Google Earth. If you haven’t already downloaded this to stickybeak at your neighbour’s backyard LOL, then you need to do that first before you can play with LitTrip.
Try it out with The Kite Runner. You’ll find it on the downloads page, and seeing the landscape that the characters travelled through will change the way you remember this book forever.
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