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I have added our Reading Goal, Lesson plan and script as files so have a look to see if they are ok. And I have added our space unit planner. ta Bern

I have added a page with our pre and post assessment task. I haven't copied it, I have just added it as a link. Have a look and see if we need to change anything. Ta Bern

Whoo hooo, Our place in Space has become much more exciting. Always happy to have an excursion to go on. I am trying to put our itinerary for the day on to the wiki but not having much luck at the moment copying a pdf (any clues) Matt has also found a company to come for an incursion to show us lots of space things. The cost of both should be covered (with some creative bookwork) by families as an out of town excursion. Ssshhh. 2nd update for the night. Again very late. I have managed to add the itinerary for Scienceworks as a new page. Stay tuned for the update to our ICU planning on space.

Hi Team I have realised that if you make a new page it will often open a link and then that is not 'shareable' so it might be easier to cut and paste pages and then copy them to a new page. That is what I have done with the PMI from tonights meeting. If you think of anything else to add, especially from Loretta's questions, just add them on. Thanks for all your efforts and I'm sure that we have had many new learning experiences ourselves, many that we will do differently next time. I guess that is what we have learnt and can share with other units at tomorrow nights meeting. Keep ticking over in your mind how we can prepare for the reading goal in a more effective way. Kate E had an idea of a rubric for our teaching that we could work on together as it will be hard to assess chn's learning in this area. And now I feel like I am rambling.......... No meeting Tuesday morning but a quick get-together Wednesday arvo to chat about Mass preparation.

Hi All, I have put a map of the Bendigo CBD in each of your pigeon holes. Dad did a solid and got me a whole pad of about 30 from the Bendigo Information Centre. When i have time I was thinking I could laminate us a class set and we could use these for some of our lessons in inquiry or mathematics. The maps are coloured and have pictures of landmarks, the streets are really clear and there are a few different legends -- lots of interesting stuff!. Let me know if or when you would like to use them :). It might even be worth us looking into what other resources are at the information centre (ie. would it be worthwhile as an excursion, esp if we were thinking of checking out the planetarium at the discovery centre). Anywho -- have a great evening! Ria. Hi Everyone! I had emailed a link around to Storyline Online for the story Stella Luna which is a book we can read to our kids for Pentecost. It was a really worthwhile watch and the kids loved it. Ill post the link below again so it is on our wiki. To get to Stella Luna just keep clicking more stories. There are alot of other great stories on here too and all come with a list of follow up activities, online or in the classroom. Im experimenting with attaching a link so let me know if it works. Enjoy!

[|Stella Luna online] Ria.

I hope you all had a great holiday.

Craig

Hi there, Kate I found it tricky to add my thoughts to your email so thought I would copy it to the wiki so we can add our thoughts there. Hi everyone,

Since we won't get another chance to catch up as a unit, I thought I'd start this PMI that Grace has asked our unit for. Can you add to it and email it back to me and I'll put our thoughts together to send back to Grace. Thanks everyone!

__Plus __ *Made me look at the motivation behind a child's behaviour which has helped me to determine what to do next to address the issues. * Made me aware of recurring behaviour that you just deal with normally rather than giving strategies to help change the behaviour. 

__Minus __ Because it is new I feel that i could have added some incidents that I dealt with and then moved on.

__Interesting __ *Remembering to fill it in! * Ditto

Hi everyone, From the PLC tonight, we have decided that our Post Test Data is to be completed by the end of Week 2, Term 2.

21/03/2012 Hi All,

I had a crack at our first teaching strategy today: SHAPES & SIDES IN THE CLASSROOM I had the students look around the classroom and find shapes that they knew. We went and pointed out a rectangle, square, circle, half circle, diamond, Hexagon (on a sports soccer ball), Cube, Sphere, Cyclinder. Then i asked if they had heard of any other shapes and we added them to the list. Next we looked at 'what is a side?' and tried to find 'sides' in our room. Students could point out the side of the bin, side of the smartboard. Then we looked at a poster on the board and it was really interesting- kids could say the two 'sides' on the side of the poster were sides but that the others weren't, they were a top and bottom!. So we ticked the sides on the poster and then rotated it around. Students could then visualise a side could be a top and a side could be a bottom. We decided as a class a side was a line that joined 2 corners. Just thought I would share what we did.

Enjoy - Ria

20/3/2012 Re: Mathematics Goal Tonight we will use the worksheet data as pre testing information to drive our discussion. The hands on 2D and 3D pre test data will be collected between now and next Tuesday 27th March. We will meet as a unit at 8:15am on this Tuesday 27th to discuss the hands on data.

Buggetty, buggetty, buggetty.

Matt

Hi Guys,

Just want to say thank you and well done on all of your hard work with the literacy testing. I'm hoping we get a little spare time at some stage in the near future for us to have a look at the data and our thoughts on what it means for us at both a whole unit level and at an individual student level.

Have a great weekend, hope to see you Monday. (Not really)!