Stages of Learning
Happy Limerick Day
Today is Limerick Day. It celebrates the birthday of Edward Lear (1812 – 1888). Lear made limericks popular in his 1846 publication “A Book of Nonsense”
What is a limerick?
A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet.
A couplet is a two-line rhymed poem and a triplet is a three-line.
What are the [...]
What’s another word for Synonym?
Can you think of one?? I haven’t been able to. Even a search at Synonym.com brought back the result:
Sorry, I could not find synonyms for ’synonym’
I found some websites that deal with Synonyms though:
Teacher’s Clubhouse – Grammar Skills
A lesson on synonyms for Kindergarten
EdHelper worksheets on Synonyms
I did also find the humourous t-shirts too, if you’re [...]
Weather Chart Icons
I came across these Free Weather Icons the other day – could be good for use on a weather chart, or maybe even an IWB version?? I might even try to come up with something like that a little later on. Let me know if you’ve seen a good IWB chart for [...]
Student Goals
Mrs McNamara has come up with a good idea. She has used student photos to illustrate students’ goals for the rest of the year. These have been presented in the “motivational poster” style though, using FD’s Flickr Toys. One of the toys is a motivational poster creator – simply upload the photo, type in a [...]
Division Problems
Have been doing some marking lately, and this student’s answer on their Year 4 Maths Assessment made me chuckle:
Graduation Songs
It’s getting to that time of the year when a lot of schools are trying to find a suitable graduation song to play or for the kids to sing. Here are some that have been suggested on a listserve I belong to:
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), by Greenday
Light Surrounding Me, by Evermore
We Are Family, [...]
SMART World Teachers’ Day Video Contest 2007
The winners of Smarttech’s World Teachers’ Day Video Contest for 2007 have been announced – with the global winner being Miss Lisa McCallum, a Kindergarten teacher at St. Therese Primary School in Sydney, Australia. View their winning video now by clicking the picture below.
Learn to Juggle
Circus Arts has been a fairly major initiative within the Western NSW Region of the NSW DET, originally starting out at Dubbo West Public School as early as 1991. Since then it has grown with many other schools becoming involved. I just came across this video demonstrating how to juggle, over at Sclipo.com. Further information [...]
Ian’s Shoelace Site
I can’t remember how I came across this site, but I’ve had it stored on my computer for a while now. It is Ian’s Shoelace Site, which has a huge list of different ways to lace your shoes, heaps of different knots to use as well as heaps of other hints and tips. Pretty Amazing [...]