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Grant, This sounds fantastic. No wonder the kids are excited. What a wonderful way to teach them about inclusiveness and understanding of others. I am looking forward to the pictures. I hope you can get your local paper involved and show the kids ...
I have been working with our Grade Three teachers on a unit called Proud to be Australian. Our core understandings are...
1.Being a citizen of Australia is a privilege
2.Our duty as citizens is to welcome others into our lives
3.Celebrations are a...
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Hi Nina,
We completed a similar unit back in Term 2 with our Grade Threes. I have attached the version of the file I could find at home. It is not the completed one on the server, but I think you will get the idea.
It would...
That is a really cool idea Anita. I have asked a sent out a bulk email to all the teachers at our school to give your idea a try. Fingers crossed they take it up. But if one does, then mission accomplished I imagine, as around 30 humans will be an...
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- At 8:23pm on July 29, 2009,
Grant Ian Lewis said…
- Please give me a call on skype greeningtheplanet it's Grant Lewis senior from the Gold Coast. What a great name.
- At 10:19pm on July 15, 2009,
Jenny Luca said…
- Oops! Didn't think the comment had posted. Obviously it had. 4 times!!
- At 10:17pm on July 15, 2009,
Jenny Luca said…
- Best of luck with the star sprinklers idea Grant. It's wonderful to see people picking up on the ideas of others and running with them. Let us know how things go. I'm eager to hear. : )
- At 10:17pm on July 15, 2009,
Jenny Luca said…
- Best of luck with the star sprinklers idea Grant. It's wonderful to see people picking up on the ideas of others and running with them. Let us know how things go. I'm eager to hear. : )
- At 10:16pm on July 15, 2009,
Jenny Luca said…
- Best of luck with the star sprinklers idea Grant. It's wonderful to see people picking up on the odeas of others and running with them. Let us know how things go. I'm eager to hear. : )
- At 10:15pm on July 15, 2009,
Jenny Luca said…
- Best of luck with the stat sprinklers idea Grant. It's wonderful to see people picking up on the odeas of others and running with them. Let us know how things go. I'm eager to hear. : )
- At 11:22pm on June 17, 2009,
NinaD said…
- Hi Grant, Your page looks fantastic. Hmmm- I'm going to have to do something to mine. Cheers Nina
- At 11:03pm on June 8, 2009,
Jenny Luca said…
- Hi Grant,
Now you need to see how you can link your curriculum focus to ideas for making a difference.
Preps - can they do something in the community to make a difference for others. Perhaps it could begin with doing something at home? Photos of their efforts could be shared here.
Grade ones ; could they create a habitat in the school grounds to encourage minibeasts to thrive? They could use voicethread to record their efforts and share the voicethread link here.
Grade Twos - Can they visit or be visited by a local veterinary clinic that assists injured wildlife? They could then do some fundraising to support that organisation and share their efforts in a blog post here.
Grade threes - Citizenship ceremony sounds great. They could record the stories of some of the participants using photostory 3 and embed the movies they have created here.
Grade fours - Can they identify something that needs attention in the local community and create a Photostory 3 movie that they could present to their local member to lobby for action. The movie could be shared here.
Grade fives - Can they do something to assist in making changes at home to their eating or exercise patterns? They could create a wiki where each student contributes their experiences over the course of a few weeks. The link could be shared here for others to access.
Grade Sixes - Could create a wiki where they share their findings. The link could be shared here so that others could access it. It becomes a resource for everyone to use.
These are just ideas Grant. You need to provide the leadership to bring your staff with you and allow them to see how powerful sharing what they are doing can be. If you have any questions send me a message.
Good luck. We are here to help if you need it.
- At 2:10pm on June 5, 2009,
Grant Lewis said…
- I have been planning with all our levels this week.
The Preps - Are continuing to look at community helpers
The Ones have gone old school with Mini-beasts, but can't work out where to take it in the end.
The Twos are looking at habitats and animals
Grade 3's to conduct a Citizenship Ceremony in September of this year. But we have to get the OK from the Department of Immigration. Fingers crossed we can do something with that, if not we will have an affirmation ceremony instead.
The Fours are looking at Democracy and our system/levels of government.
The Fives are exploring health
The Sixes are examining conflict and how it shapes identity and culture.
Am happy to collaborate or be pointed in the right direction for action
- At 10:28pm on June 4, 2009,
NinaD said…
- Hi Grant,
Looking forward to hearing about what you're doing. Cheers Nina
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Citizenship
I have been working with our Grade Three teachers on a unit called Proud to be Australian. Our core understandings are...
1.Being a citizen of Australia is a privilege
2.Our duty as citizens is to welcome others into our lives
3.Celebrations are an important way to acknowledge special events
4.There is a process to organising celebrations and events
The action component of this is to organise a real citizenship ceremony at our school.
The children brainstormed who we would need to contact, see… Continue
1.Being a citizen of Australia is a privilege
2.Our duty as citizens is to welcome others into our lives
3.Celebrations are an important way to acknowledge special events
4.There is a process to organising celebrations and events
The action component of this is to organise a real citizenship ceremony at our school.
The children brainstormed who we would need to contact, see… Continue
Posted on August 21, 2009 at 12:55am — 1 Comment
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The students have had some great ideas but we have struggled to get them off the ground. One that seems to be coming together is an initiative to raise awareness of the Zaidee Rainbow Foundation. This foundation encourages others to donate their o...
Hi Stephanie,
I really like the rhyme scheme in this poem. It reminds me of some of the poetry of a man called William Butler Yeats. He wrote in the same style and his poems often dealt with weighty issues, as yours does. This poem makes me consi...
I completely and utterly agree with this. I see so many people who have so called "good" values and morals in life look at others as though they are the scum of the earth because they were born differently than them. It's not right that so many pe...
If the battle cry is given,
and the drums of war begin,
would you fight to save the peaceful,
or let the grief sink in?
Would you stand for all you know,
if the price became to steep?
Or would you swallow all your worries,
and hope to hell they l...
I really appreciate the subtle point you make about the ways in which we judge people based upon what they do or do not accomplish. People who don't finish school do lose quite a bit of status in our world, but I can think of so many people who ha...
Hmmmm....and I'm wondering...is it possible to make the world a better place without making ourselves better? And is it possible to make ourselves better without making the world better? I'm really curious about how you would answer this, Kathryn....
Catherine---Wow. This is like a much needed slap in the face ; ) What a great example of how we can use poetry to make necessary statements and illuminate serious issues. Provocative.
Oh, Mrs. Leach, I love this poem. I have so felt this. I get so many customers at the pizzeria I work at who come in and share their intolerant beliefs. There was one a few weeks ago, who walked past an African American customer, and stated how he...
We will be wrapping up our work on Three Cups by creating Glogsters with the kids' reactions to the book. Each glog will contain images, writing, video that we will capture during which kids discuss the theme or message they have taken away from t...
The salesman came in and began to chat, as they do
about the family that he missed and the town where he lived
and the blacks infiltrating his neighborhood and the Jews who were hiding the money from him
and he thought that I agreed, because of m...
I am not inside your head.
I can't predict what you will say.
I can't control your feelings,
Even if I hope you feel that way.
Today you tell me one story,
And tomorrow you'll tell another.
How do I know what to believe,
Why should I even bother?...
The Global Poetry Project aims to provide a space for members to expand upon their cultural views through the writing and reading of poetry.
I am not inside your head.
I can't predict what you will say.
I can't control your feelings,
Even if I hope you feel that way.
Today you tell me one story,
And tomorrow you'll tell another.
How do I know what to believe,
Why should I even bother?...
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