The latest Photo Peach masterpiece of digital storytelling by 1K students at Penrith PS! Special guest star: Miss Ingle’s Cranky the Crocodile.
The elephant’s child
Category Archives: humour
Lovely library limericks on Photo Peach
Some book rappers from 1K came up with a unique take on their digital story:
Lovely library limericks
A magical morning with Phyllis Wong’s friends
Today, at The Children’s Bookshop, Beecroft, Paul Macdonald introduced the irrepressible author Geoffrey McSkimming, of “Cairo Jim” fame, to a young audience who’d come to celebrate the start of Book Week with some magic! Geoffrey read from his new novel, “Phyllis Wong and the Forgotten Secrets of Mr Okyto”, the first in a projected series of six books. His professional magic adviser on the book, Sue-Anne Webster, performed some wonderful feats with the help of members of the audience. There were autographs and collectible lapel badges for all!
Paul Macdonald introduces Geoffrey McSkimming
Author Geoffrey McSkimming is about to unleash his “Saturday imagination”, and magician Sue-Anne Webster prepares to catch it in a paper bag at The Children’s Bookshop. For his weekday imagination, Geoffrey would need a bigger container.
A highlight of the event:
Geoffrey: “Any questions?”
Comment from audience: “What’s behind that black cloth?”
Geoffrey: “Books I didn’t write.”
Phyllis Wong and the forgotten secrets of Mr Okyto – book trailer
and, as presented by the author, Geoffrey McSkimming:
I found a Youtube clip of Sue-Anne performing rope tricks:
Sue-Anne Webster magic ropes
London bus does push-ups!
Here’s a pre-Olympics treat from Youtube that will be of interest to our Stage 2 students, especially, since it builds on recent science & technology work on levers and pulleys. The kinetic sculpture was created by Czech artist, David Cerny.
London double-decker bus does push-ups for Olympics.
London bus doing push-ups reaches its stop in Islington.
ITN News report by Sam Datta-Paulin.
Financial literacy for Stage 2
In Term 3, to complement Stage 2 students’ class work in the area of financial literacy (Priority Schools Program), the weekly library lessons will be providing field knowledge opportunities and Guided Inquiry research activities about money.
These introductory Youtube clips should prove useful:
The invention of money and currency.
Dollar Bill and Australians keep the wheels of industry turning.
Australian currency
Making plastic money
Let it snow!
Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students are learning about the season of winter this week. After reading “What-a-Mess in winter” by Frank Muir & Joseph Wright, which is set during the approach of Christmas festivities in England, we investigated these two Youtube video clips:
Spectacular footage – Train plowing through deep snow Arthur’s Pass
Snow flakes
Closer to home…
Here’s a Photo Peach slideshow from the day that Penrith Public School had a freak summer hailstorm, turning a typical December day into a winter wonderland!
Penrith PS in December: a white Christmas
A new digital story!
My early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students would like to share a new digital story, a retelling of “The three little pigs”:
Go to: photopeach.com/album/12f2vt5, or click the arrow:
The three little pigs.
Cruelty to colourblind teacher-librarians!
Part of Term 2’s pupil-free day was learning to play Speedminton. I could barely see the orange colour of the so-called “Fun Speeder” (shuttlecock), and it was even worse when it was on the grass!
What’s cookin’?
Any idea what’s bubbling away on my cooktop? I’m dyeing two customised puppets!
And this becomes…
… this!
Yes, they are a pair of customized puppets, now dried in the washing machine spin-drier. The completed bat has wings cut from brown felt and the new eyes are flat beads in a pink plastic, Supaglued over the original black giraffe eyes. 50 cents for a packet containing lots (of future replacement eyes?) I love bargain shops!
The panther’s eyes are some teardrop-shaped yellow plastic “jewels”, originally bought for a different project. The only reason for turning a tiger into a panther was to give the bat a dunking buddy, and use up the leftover dye.
These two new additions (above) look rather sedate after the cooking pot episode!
Humpty was pushed?
Our school has had a Humpty Dumpty mural on a classroom wall for many years now. It’s amazing how fast Humpty falls again when the three-year cyclic plan for K-2 comes around again.
As is traditional, the “Chicks R Us” and their incubator turned up this week. Only one egg to hatch now!
Meanwhile, the students suggested that a PowerPoint show about the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme, made three years ago, needed one more image to make it more interesting. So, this year, Easter egg Humpty shows some leakage after falling off his wall:
