K-3 Teacher Resources Newsletter January 2008

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Tips & Updates Newsletter No.7
January 2008
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Contents....
*Welcome
*Monthly Teaching Tips Winner
*New Teachers Zone
*Teaching Tip
*New Resources
*Resources Coming Soon

*Welcome..
Well doesn't time fly? We are at the end of January already, and this week all of our Aussie members would be up and running back to school for a new year.

I hope that your year has started well for you and that you a just a little bit excited about those new classes.

Having my children home during the holidays has been lovely, although it can be tricky trying to work and play at the same time. Consequently, my time has been limited due to some serious 'playing', but we still managed to add some terrific new resources.

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*Exciting New Concept -
'K-3 Teachers Zone'...opens...

We are really excited about this concept and we need your help to kick start it.

To encourage you we are giving away memberships or renewals for the first 5 new 'Zonees'. So be quick and take a look....

We have had 3 applications so far and are looking forward to their first contributions. We would love you to join us.....

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*Teaching Tip Time...

News Telling Time
When, Who, Where, What, Why & Feelings

News telling is a wonderful strategy for early primary children to build confidence and learn the relationship between speaking and listening.

I would include news telling for one term of the school year only, as it can become tedious to use this strategy all year. There are other oral strategies which we used during the other terms. (for example, mystery bag oral descriptions, story retelling, and our winning teaching idea from this month would be an ideal oral strategy).

We would use the When, Who, Where, What, Why and Feelings framework for our news telling.

Depending on the ages of the children, we would plan our news using an A3 / A4 size planner. For younger children, we drew pictures, added words for older children and just used word or note form for much older children.

We would talk about this framework a lot and of course use lots of modelling before it was implemented.

This could include brainstorming each category for examples of sentence starters - eg. On Saturday, last week, next Tuesday....

I have seen two ways in which the news telling sessions are implemented.

1. the individual news plans were part of the weekly group literacy activities.

2. the news plan were sent home with the children to plan their news with their parents.

Both seemed to work well.

Different ways of telling news can also make it more interesting.

• formal (use news plan) , informal (spontaneous)
• small group news
• partner news
• different news categories, sporting news, community news, family news, school news

Use our news telling charts and A4 plan to help.

*New Resource Additions to Membership Site...

Theme Word Sets

** Australia

** Zoo Animals

Concept Books

** What is large?
** What is small?
** Numbers Rhyme
** Humpty Dumpty
** Hickory Dickory Dock

Nursery Rhymes Poems and Songs

** Humpty Dumpty
** Wee Willie Winkie
** Jack Be Nimble

Dolch Sight Words

** Supersize Dolch Sight Words

*Resources Coming Soon....

Heaps of Maths equation cards and ways to use them.

Themes - 'Space', 'Places and Spaces'

Nursery Rhymes - "Mary Had a Little Lamb" , "Little Miss Muffett"
Poems/Songs - 'Bingo'

More Yes / No Question Cards - Nursery Rhymes

Maths Taskboard Labels

Attribute Mats

Till next time - Take Care..... Donna

PS ****(DON'T FORGET WITH ALL OF OUR PRINTABLES YOU CAN PRINT THEM ANY SIZE USING THE PAGE ADJUSTMENTS ON YOUR PRINTER - THIS PROVIDES SO MUCH SCOPE FOR SO MANY USES OF ALL OUR PRINTABLES - make them smaller and black and white - ideal for individual student copies as well.)****

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