Thanks Gary Warrick for the great pic, too.
Monthly Archives: October 2013
More fables: The magic fish and The town mouse & the country mouse
Stage 1 and Early Stage 1 students are studying fables this term. These Youtube videos will support the reading.
The magic fish, or The fisherman and his wife, is often categorised as a Grimm’s fairy tale, but it also has an obvious moral.
The fisherman and his wife
Two parodies of the same tale:
The magic fish – Fractured Fairy Tales
Fractured Fairy Tales – The fisherman and his wife
Aesop: biography of a great thinker
The town mouse and the country mouse – Aesop’s fables
City mouse and country mouse
Мышь vs. Печенька (Mouse vs Biscuit)
After reading several versions of the famous Aesop’s fable, the students created their own interpretation of “City Mouse & Country Mouse” as a PhotoPeach slideshow. A combined effort of brainstorming, storyboarding, set creation, photographing, and joint construction of text!
City Mouse & Country Mouse
Learning about Buddhism and Judaism
New blog for Stage 3: making our own global connection
Stage 3 students investigate global connections – blog
The above blog will be used to present the students’ research into Australia’s global connections, by being globally connected!
UPDATE: We ran out of time to complete this blog, but we will restart it with the 2015 classes.
One more Wordle: 5/6W on media and communications Global Connections
5/6E’s Wordle on tourism Global Connections
5/6D’s Wordle on Global Connections: sport
Facts about fish
Stage 1 and Early Stage 1 students are studying fables this term and every second week, we are concentrating on gathering factual information on one of the animals/concepts featured in the fable.
These Youtube videos will be useful for “Fish”:
How do fish live under water?
Setting up a goldfish aquarium
How the seahorse got its shape — by Nature Video
Investigating world religions
Stage 2 students are studying world religions and festivals in their HSIE work. A useful website should be Religion for kids.
These Youtube video clips will be our starting points to start explore essential field knowledge:
Religion Global History Timeline 1 min 30 sec (Was: History timeline: world religions conquest map HD)
See also:
The world must watch this video to respect Vedic Hinduism (from “Proud Hindus of India”).
The link above does not allow embedding of the clip into a blog entry.
Krishna: history or myth 1
(First few minutes are a broad overview of Hinduism; then moves to Krishna sect.)
Hindu creation story
Explanation of the Hindu Gods
Hindu Gods Ganesh
“Akshardham Temple, Delhi” by travfotos on Flickr Creative Commons
5 Pillars of Islam – part 1 | Cartoon by Discover Islam UK
The 5 pillars of Islam animated in English (includes previous clip at the beginning)
“Taj Mahal” by ndj5 on Flickr Creative Commons
Restoring endangered animals
In 2011, our Stage 3 classes created digital slideshows as persuasive texts in a Guided Inquiry unit, Endangered animals: beyond the rainforest, which focused upon rainforests in HSIE (human society & its environment’s Global Environments: Rainforests) and endangered animals in science & technology (Ecosystems).
A data crash of the Photo Peach servers, in December 2012, meant that the visual elements of the final products were lost. I am slowly restoring the students’ work from the archived storyboards, and the salvaged captions and comments on the old slideshows. I have restored the slideshows on my own (paid) PhotoPeach site, rather than the free s3penrithps page we originally created, because I can download archived versions as part of my subscription, and safeguard against losing them again.
by Tamara, Nandita & Riley (2011)
by Tahlia, Christina, Corey, Angela & Christian (2011)
by Tom, Matt J. & John (2011)
by Naomi, Bernise & Quinn (2011)
by Tristan & Luke (2011)
by Trent, Michelle & Latisha (2011)
by Jeremy, Lisa, Kayla, Emily & Phoebe (2011)
by Monique, Courtney, Patrick & Milo (2011)
by Jade, Lauren & Kiesha (2011)
Some of the original storyboards are linked at the Endangered animals: beyond the rainforest blog, plus programming, supporting documentation and a research article.