This material has come from tki.org.nz
School Journal Part 3 Number 2 2011 has now been processed and is now in the Senior Resource Room.
Contents:
Articles:
Farah Palmer: In the Front Row
Rugby under Wraps
Stories
Beans
Kick-start
A Rock and a Hard Place
Poem
Farewell Song
http://literacyonline.tki.org.nz/Literacy-Online/Teacher-needs/Instructional-Series/School-Journal/TSM-2011
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Google Presentations, Wikis and Blogs
This material has come from sharpjacqui blogspot.com:
You could create a presentation like this on your own wiki or blog.
http://sharpjacqui.blogspot.com/2011/08/photo-of-day-google-presentation-and.html
You could create a presentation like this on your own wiki or blog.
http://sharpjacqui.blogspot.com/2011/08/photo-of-day-google-presentation-and.html
BOOK WEEK - Term Two - NZ Book Council - Visiting Author 2011
MARK SOMMERSET
http://www.dreamboatbooks.com/
Visiting author Mark Sommerset spoke to children in Years 3, 4, 5, 6 about his books and writing.
Mangere East Librarian
We also had Lyndsey Smith – Librarian from Mangere East Library spoke to Area A classes.
http://www.dreamboatbooks.com/
Visiting author Mark Sommerset spoke to children in Years 3, 4, 5, 6 about his books and writing.
Mangere East Librarian
We also had Lyndsey Smith – Librarian from Mangere East Library spoke to Area A classes.Friday, 26 August 2011
Librarians change Lives - Gary Paulsen
I had to post this for all to read.
This is from Services in Schools by Miss Maple about Gary Paulsen's Life.
Many of us spent the holidays hunkered down and watching snowflakes drift past our windows, but Carrie Bouffard trotted off to Los Angeles to attend the 40th annual conference of the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators.
Being in the same room as Judy Blume has left her a little dazed (and with a dopey grin on her face), but I managed to get her to tell me about her most inspiring moment:
“All of the speakers were amazing, but I found Gary Paulsen to be the most inspirational speaker there. I have long been a fan of Hatchet, and Winterdance (his autobiographical tale of his first Iditarod) is one of my absolute favourite books, so I was prepared to be impressed.
What I wasn’t prepared for was the tragic tale of Paulsen’s early life. He described himself as a kid who didn’t just fall through the cracks but was “hammered through them.” His parents were both alcoholics and by the time he was ten years old he was spending much of his time living in the woods alone, where he ran trap lines to feed himself: “All that stuff in ‘Hatchet’ is true. It’s all stuff I’ve done.”
He used to wait until the bars closed each night and then beg the drunks for money (or rob them). One night he went into the public library to get warm, and his life changed.
The librarian signed him up for a library card and gave him a book. His parents and their problems were well known in the small town, but she gave him a card anyway and she even spelled his name right. All of a sudden he was “somebody” and he felt “honour-bound” to actually read the book because she had trusted him.
It took him six weeks to read that first book. He was failing school and not a strong reader, but he finished it and went back for another. Months went by and he was up to two or three books a week. “She would give me two Zane Grey westerns and slip in a Dickens.” He became a reader.
That librarian changed Gary Paulsen’s life. Reading changed his life. I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house when he told us all that “everything I have become, I owe that woman, and she never even knew.”
This is from Services in Schools by Miss Maple about Gary Paulsen's Life.
Many of us spent the holidays hunkered down and watching snowflakes drift past our windows, but Carrie Bouffard trotted off to Los Angeles to attend the 40th annual conference of the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators.
Being in the same room as Judy Blume has left her a little dazed (and with a dopey grin on her face), but I managed to get her to tell me about her most inspiring moment:
“All of the speakers were amazing, but I found Gary Paulsen to be the most inspirational speaker there. I have long been a fan of Hatchet, and Winterdance (his autobiographical tale of his first Iditarod) is one of my absolute favourite books, so I was prepared to be impressed.
What I wasn’t prepared for was the tragic tale of Paulsen’s early life. He described himself as a kid who didn’t just fall through the cracks but was “hammered through them.” His parents were both alcoholics and by the time he was ten years old he was spending much of his time living in the woods alone, where he ran trap lines to feed himself: “All that stuff in ‘Hatchet’ is true. It’s all stuff I’ve done.”
He used to wait until the bars closed each night and then beg the drunks for money (or rob them). One night he went into the public library to get warm, and his life changed.
The librarian signed him up for a library card and gave him a book. His parents and their problems were well known in the small town, but she gave him a card anyway and she even spelled his name right. All of a sudden he was “somebody” and he felt “honour-bound” to actually read the book because she had trusted him.
It took him six weeks to read that first book. He was failing school and not a strong reader, but he finished it and went back for another. Months went by and he was up to two or three books a week. “She would give me two Zane Grey westerns and slip in a Dickens.” He became a reader.
That librarian changed Gary Paulsen’s life. Reading changed his life. I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house when he told us all that “everything I have become, I owe that woman, and she never even knew.”
Bonjour, butterfly
Nancy thinks butterflies are simply exquisite and she can't wait for her friend Bree's Butterfly Birthday. But when Nancy finds out she has to go to her grandparents' fiftieth anniversary party instead, she is furious! (Mad is far too plain for how she feels).
In this magical story, everybody's favourite fancy girl gets a surprise lesson in fancy from her own grandparents. Maybe fancy runs in the family after all!
Birthday Rain
Everyone hid - it's school today! But the little ones haven't counted on Big Mum Plum. Will school be so bad? Or will it be Big Mum Plum who is surprised?Big Mum Plum
Everyone hid - it's school today! But the little ones haven't counted on Big Mum Plum. Will school be so bad? Or will it be Big Mum Plum who is surprised?
Thursday, 25 August 2011
School Journal Story Library
These Journals have been processed and are now are in the Senior Resource Room.
The electronic resource (CD-Roms) are in the Teachers Resource Library that go with these Journals.
Material from TKI site.
The electronic resource (CD-Roms) are in the Teachers Resource Library that go with these Journals.
Material from TKI site.
School Journal Story Library Years 5-6
An Island in Time
Any Old Iron (The Art of Jeff Thomson)
School Journal Story Library Years 7-8
The Wild Deer Debate
The Bullet
Connected 1 & 2 & 3 2011
Connected 1 & 2 & 3 have been processed and are now in the Senior Resource Room
Connected 1 2011
Ruaumoko Rages
Content:
Ruaumoko Rages
Taupo
Time Capsules
Understanding Volcanoes
Living with a Volcano
Connected 2 2011
Structure
Content:
Saffron's Skeleton
Building a Wharenui
More than a Box
Holding it all together
Connected 3 2011
Border Security
Content:
What is Biosecurity?
Protecting the Border
A Good Idea at the Time
A Helpful Immigrant
Fruit Fly Buster
Connected Resource
Connected 1 2011
Ruaumoko Rages
Content:
Ruaumoko Rages
Taupo
Time Capsules
Understanding Volcanoes
Living with a Volcano
Connected 2 2011
Structure
Content:
Saffron's Skeleton
Building a Wharenui
More than a Box
Holding it all together
Connected 3 2011
Border Security
Content:
What is Biosecurity?
Protecting the Border
A Good Idea at the Time
A Helpful Immigrant
Fruit Fly Buster
Connected Resource
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