I may have retired – my second Christmas period away from teaching – but the time still goes so fast! Every year, I am curious as to what John Lewis & Partners did with their famous annual Christmas ad. It was always fun to share and discuss these productions with the students. Merry Christmas!
Christmas 2019 Ad | John Lewis & Partners and Waitrose & Partners | Excitable Edgar
The Making Of Excitable Edgar (Extended Version) | John Lewis & Partners and Waitrose & Partners
Have you been wondering why no updates?
Currently I am on Long Service Leave, preparing for retirement. I guess there will be irregular blog updates as they occur to me. Meanwhile, Merry Christmas!
John Lewis Christmas advert 2018 featuring Elton John | The boy and the piano
The making of The boy and the piano | John Lewis & Partners Christmas ad 2018
Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students are investigating the nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty.
Humpty Dumpty Traditional English nursery rhyme egg song
Humpty Dumpty – 3D animation English nursery rhyme songs for children with lyrics
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty rhyme – Meaning behind the nursery rhyme
More origin possibilities at:
Humpty Dumpty and the Fall of Colchester
Alice through the looking glass [movie] | Humpty Dumpty | Disney NL
Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students are continuing to investigate the nursery rhyme, “Little Boy Blue”.
Little Boy Blue – nursery rhyme with karaoke
Color songs | The BLUE song | Learn colours | Preschool colors nursery rhymes | ChuChu TV
or start HERE.
Colors song 2
Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students are investigating the nursery rhyme, “Little Boy Blue”.
Little Boy Blue – nursery rhyme with karaoke
Here are the factual Youtube clips we will be using to expand their field knowledge:
Haystack building using pitchforks
How to make grass into hay bales
Round baling hay
Blowing horns
Blowing 2 shofars
Students in Stage 1 and Early Stage 1 will be celebrating Chinese New Year as part of our Celebrations unit in literacy. This year, it will be the Year of the Dog. We will be reading the picture books, New year surprise! by Christopher Cheng & Di Wu and Made in China by Deborah Nash.
Here are some Youtube resources:
Year of the Dog – Wallace & Gromit
2018 Lion Dance in Pavilion KL ushering the Year of the Dog
And when revising our work on sheep:
World’s wooliest sheep ‘found in Australia’
Shaun the Sheep has been finally shorn!
In Term 1, students in Stage 1 and Early Stage 1 investigate nursery rhymes.
Mary had a little lamb – Nursery rhymes for children
Mary had a little lamb | Nursery rhymes by HooplaKidz
Mini the lamb drinking milk
A new lamb in the family | Farm raised with P. Allen Smith
Today, I want to explore with my teacher colleagues the upcoming National Simultaneous Storytime picture book for 2018, Hickory dickory dash by Tony Wilson & Laura Wood, and how it fits into our existing K-2 literacy cycle, and how it can address English outcomes for Stage 2 and Stage 3 students (see Objective C).
English K-10 syllabus outcome (From NSW Education Standards Authority, NESA):
We will also briefly discuss:
* aspects of Guided Inquiry activities for Stage 2 and Stage 3, team-taught, library lessons this year (Note: units use the KLA’s own syllabus outcomes plus related English outcomes)
* revisit the concept of pre-, mid- and post- surveys for students (from the SLIM toolkit) to collect both qualitative and quantitative data (action research)
* some possible strategies for improving student attitudes and successes with longer form fiction, such as novels (see Objective D).
English K-10 syllabus outcome (From NSW Education Standards Authority, NESA):
OASIS searching:
Students searching with the Orbit interface in Oliver
Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students are learning about Spring, the life cycle of the frog and the fable, “The exploding frog” (aka “The frog and the ox”).
The life cycle of a frog
Life cycle of a frog
Panama frogs serenade females – The trials of life – BBC
The mystery of the red-eyed tree frog
Here are the links we have used in previous years:
ianmclean.edublogs.org/2011/10/18/frogs-frogs-frogs-life-cycles-fables/.