UK department store Sainsbury’s features Judith Kerr’s famous book character, Mog the cat, in an advertisement for the Christmas season. These ads are also excellent examples of persuasive visual texts.
Sainsbury’s official Christmas advert 2015 – Mog’s Christmas calamity
Sainsbury’s official Christmas 2014 ad – 1914
And the current ad is:
Sainsbury’s official Christmas advert 2016 – The greatest gift
Each year, UK department store, John Lewis, hires a team to create a special ad for the Christmas season. These ads are excellent examples of persuasive visual texts.
John Lewis Christmas advert 2016 – #BustertheBoxer
Previous annual links to John Lewis ads are HERE.
Laws of reflection
ABC Zoom – Refraction: why glass prisms bend and separate light
Dispersion of white light
Stage 2 students continue their investigations into Australian cereal crops.
All about Australian rice (Full video)
Dad’s oats
Sweet corn harvest in Australia 2016 [Maize]
Stage 3 students’ investigating “Light” in science & technology with find these articles useful.
Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked, which leads to the original Smithsonian article, True colors by archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann.
It’s Book Week again. I was thrilled to have been invited to last Friday’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA)’s Book of the Year Award presentations for 2016 at Teachers Federation House, hosted by CBCA NSW.
Classes at Penrith PS have been busily creating displays for the school library. Every few minutes, another display arrives and we seek out an ideal spot for it. This has been a tradition at the school for many decades.
Apart from the links at Mrs Mac’s website and the Kids & Books blog, here are some useful Youtube clips to help us celebrate “Australia! Story Country”, the 2016 theme:
Story Country – Book Week 2016
Read All Day for Book Week 2016 (Guildford Grammar School)
A Vimeo for Silver, Information: Sticky (Phasmid)
Gold, Early Childhood: Mr Huff by Anna Walker – book trailer (Official)
Gold, Early Childhood: Mr Huff trailer (Unofficial)
Play School – Mr Huff – Benita, Karen, Luke, Andrew, Eddie, Leah, Zindzi and Justine
Stage 2 students continue their investigations of cereal crops grown in Australia.
The wheat farmer (1974)
Wheat sowing in Australia 2011
The last time The ugly duckling came along in our K-2 literacy cycle, I made use of some personal photos taken of a Hans Christian Andersen memorial statue at Sydney’s Observatory Hill.
The ugly duckling – Silly symphony Walt Disney 1939
Our Khaki Campbell ducks~
Khaki Campbell… ducks a must see!!!
Make way for ducklings, the famous picture book by Robert McCloskey, and based on a real life event, is also immortalized in statue form at Boston Common, USA. These statues get dressed thematically at various times of the year.
Students in Stage 1 and Early Stage 1 have been researching bear facts, as a result of reading variations on the fairy tale, “Goldilocks and the three bears”.
Fun facts about bears
Grizzly bears catching salmon – Nature’s great events – BBC
Black bear and cubs in hibernation – BBC wildlife
Polar bear mom and cubs
For the Stage 3 science & technology unit, “Light me up”, here are some more Youtube clips that may prove useful.
What color is a mirror?
3 easy kids’ science experiments with magnifying glass
The science of rainbows
How a prism works to make rainbow colors
Special LED lights in infrared and ultraviolet spectrum
Rainbow walking water – easy kids science experiment