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Reading: The Core Skill:Every Child, Every Day
I came across this article recently in ASCD’s educational leadership reading Educational Leadership:Reading: The Core Skill:Every Child, Every Day. It argues that every child, every day should experience the following 1. Every child reads something he or she chooses. 2. Every child reads accurately. 3. Every child reads something he or she understands. 4. Every child … Continue reading
Joking June – UFO
UFO – Unavoidable family outing Dave Hackett UFO is a tale of mishap as a family of 5 set out in their old Morris from Sydney headed for Cape York. Trying to do the trip in two weeks (spoiler alert), they only make it to outback Queensland and manage to lose luggage, wallets and … Continue reading
Joking June – Keepinitreal
Don Henderson keepinitreal Stevie Goodes, the teen narrator of the story “about how I stopped being an egg headed idiot” is the local “refundables” (recycling) collector. Excessively shy and somewhat forgotten by society (he was left in a dumpster as a baby), Stevie lives with Uncle Boff and Auntie Peg in Victory Gardens, an (Australian) … Continue reading
Joking June – One Seriously Messed Up Week
Tom Clempson One Seriously Messed-Up Week: In the Otherwise Mundane and Uneventful Life of Jack Samsonite My first attempt to go beyond the established “humour” authors almost stopped in the first chapter. However, one I got over the “nob” shock factor, the story of sixteen year old Sam showed potential. I laughed at different episodes … Continue reading
Joking June (humour)
I know humour is a personal thing in that what I find amusing someone else might think is lame. Similarly, adults writing for young adults may struggle to hit their target, to be sufficiently “cool” in their mockery. Authors who target a younger age group (children of a primary/lower secondary age) seem to have more … Continue reading
Cybersafety
I am doing some work on cybersafety and came across this excellent film that I would love to use in a pastoral care session with Year 8-10. Find resources etc at http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/tagged/
New guides for Australian Curriculum History
Over the past month or so I have spent many hours sourcing appropriate material for pages (guides) on Australian Curriculum History topics. Have a look at the following Year 4 – Explorers Year 8 – Shogunate Japan Year 9 – Industrial Revolution Would love some feedback on the usefulness of these guides!
Magic May- Ondine,The Summer of Shambles
Ebony McKenna Ondine – The Summer of Shambles This was a lovely way to finish Magic May and get me in the mindset for Joking June. Fairy tale like Ondine is a quirky, magical, humorous romance about a 15 year old girl who is befriended by a ferret (Shambles). The ferret turns out to be … Continue reading
Magic May – The Spell Book of Listen Taylor
The Spell Book of Listen Taylor – Jaclyn Moriarty With a title like this and a place in the young adult section of my local library, this book should surely fit Magic May. Unfortunately NOT! Why? Because I didn’t finish it (I made it to page 173). Why else? Because it seems to be more … Continue reading
Magic May – The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Michael Scott – The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series It is Magic May and the publishers are about to release (22nd May?) Irish author Michael Scott’s 6th book (The Enchantress) in this series, so it is an appropriate time to talk about this fantasy/magic series. I started this series a few years ago … Continue reading
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Soveriegn Hill Education
- Digging into Our Putrid Past: Goldfields Hygiene
- SUSTAINABILITY, Waste Not – Want Not!
- Blueprints for a Better Society: The Forgotten Legacy of Mechanics’ Institutes
- François Cogné and the Making of Main Street
- The Voyage that Changed a Life: Letters and Diaries from the Goldfields Passage
- Every Donkey Has Its Day
- Coachbuilder Mr W. Proctor
- The Goldfields according to Gill
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