This very cute caped simian wonder was waiting for me in the school library on Monday…
… with this sign pinned to his cape:
By the way, I spotted these great robot pens at Officeworks this afternoon:
Category Archives: humour
Invented spelling rulez!
Today, a Kindergarten student used invented spelling to write about liking Mondays because that’s the day he comes to have a library session with Mr McLean.
My name was rendered as “Miss the Cling” in his recount. His class teacher was so proud, and I received an urgent message from another teacher to “go and look”. So kewl! I love Term Four, when everything starts coming together for the Early Stage 1 students.
What possum?
Hush from “Possum magic” (left); and Hush turns invisible (right).
Hush the baby possum from “Possum magic”, a children’s picture book by Mem Fox and Julie Vivas. He stays visible only by regular intake of “people food” such as Vegemite sandwiches, pavlova and lamingtons.
More digital stories roll in!
The book rappers in 2B at Caddies Creek PS created this digital story of “The terrific teacher and the twenty-two kids” for the Book Week 2011 book rap on Photo Peach. It is inspired by the shortlisted picture book, “The tall man and the twelve babies” by Tom Niland Champion, Kilmeny Niland & Deborah Niland.
Meanwhile, Class 2H at Caddies Creek PS created this great digital story of “Snappy the crocodile” for the Book Week 2011 book rap on Photo Peach. It is inspired by the popular picture book, “Edward the emu” by Sheila Knowles & Rod Clement.
The book rappers in 2P at Caddies Creek PS created their digital story, “My uncle’s donkey on holidays”, for the Book Week 2011 book rap on Photo Peach. It is inspired by the shortlisted picture book, “My uncle’s donkey” by Tohby Riddle.
The Secret Forest Hero by bpsbookworms on Storybird
Bankstown PS’s Book Rap Heroes (Year 3) created their amazing digital story, “The secret forest hero”, on Storybird. Click HERE to view their online eBook made for the Book Week 2011 book rap.
The book rappers at Kingswood PS also created a digital story, “My teacher’s gorilla”, for the Book Week 2011 book rap. Featuring a huge stuffed gorilla toy and other library friends, it was compiled in Photo Peach. They based it upon the CBCA-nominated picture book, “My uncle’s donkey” by Tohby Riddle.
Don’t let the penguin teach the class!: a digital story
The book rappers in 2R at Caddies Creek PS also created a digital story for the Book Week 2011 book rap on Photo Peach. It is inspired by the picture book, “Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus!” by Mo Willems.
Springtime is silkworm time
Silk Worms by mayakamina, on “Flickr” Creative Commons.
A teacher colleague asked when to expect silkworms, hoping to keep some in her classroom to study life cycles.
A bit of a wait. Not spring yet! Which reminded me: we have silkworms here annually for K-6 – one teacher collects the eggs and keeps some from year to year. Once, when I was teaching Stage 1, we came back from holidays for Term 4 and I never thought to check the old shoebox on the cupboard from the previous year. We’d had a few hot days in a row and, during a visiting student teachers’ maths lesson, a kid said, “Why are there full stops walking across the ceiling?”
Even the far wall was crawling with tiny black specks. We downed tools, went across he road to our oval and I sent every child running over the expanse of grass to get two mulberry leaves each. We returned to the classroom, stuffed the leaves into the box and the student teacher recommenced her lesson. By lunchtime, almost every little black speck had sniffed the leaves and had traversed the ceiling and back into the box.
Blast from the past: Fish’ook (1978-1979)
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When I was a student at the Guild Teachers College, I created a comic strip based on some cats of my acquaintance, and used them to poke fun at some of the boring bits of our textbooks. Classroom management, reinforcement techniques, behaviour modification, the Oedipus Complex… all good fodder for a little satire.
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Feeling pretty for Phoebe?
I’m not sure too sure these are appropriate, but I do rather like the possibilities of these Youtube clips for complementing the National Simultaneous Storytime on Wednesday:
Lola the Cockatoo – “I feel pretty”
“I feel pretty”
Introducing Gmail Motion
1st April 2011 will go down in history as the start of something revolutionary in ICT!
What body part is that?: trailer in 3D!
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton are promoting their new book in 3D on Youtube. It works with any “Real 3D” glasses from the cinema.
No 3D glasses? Here it is in 2D: