Welcome to K-3 Teacher Resources Tips & Updates Newsletter No. 11
May 2008
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*Welcome
*Monthly Teaching Tips Winner - 'Handwriting Fun'
*Teachers Zone - BRAND NEW LOOK!
*Teaching Tip - 'Under 8's Day'
*New Resources
*Resources Coming Soon *Welcome..
Goodbye May and bring on June. Welcome to all our New Members - we are so glad you have joined our happy community of early years educators. Just quickly, don't forget all of our downloads are available from the pages at www.k-3teacherresourcesmembers.com You can now just go into any page and click on the download you want without having to login first. The login box will then come up for you, or your requested download will display automatically. Free members must access their downloads from the 'Free Stuff for Teachers' category on these pages. Thank you for all of your suggestions - we do have a bit of a backlog, but we are gradually working our way through them. We have come a long way since this time last year and we thank you for informing us of your needs. This month we are concentrating on building more 'Ideas for use' pages adding even more value to our downloads - this is an important part of our commitment to our members and this will be our focus this month. Please let us know if there is any way we can help you further..... Here's to a wonderfully resourceful June....... CHARITY UPDATE - WE HAVE RAISED $28 SO FAR AND RISING - THANKS! Membership upgrade or renewal Contact Me with more suggestions and ideas Member Access- Free Members, and Full Access Members
*Monthly Winner - Teaching Tips Contribution.. Congratulations to Bec, Aust. who has won a free year of Membership to our Site. Thank you Bec for submitting your wonderful 'Handwriting Fun' Idea. You can view this winning idea here and leave comments for Bec also. Let's Share - Read other great ideas, contribute your ideas and be in the running to have your Great Teaching Idea in our next Newsletter, as well as your next Year's Membership for Free.
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*Teaching Tip Time... Under 8's Day Our school celebrated Under 8's Day this week so I thought I would share some of the great activities our wonderful Prep-3 Teachers put together. The theme for this year was "Our Children - Our World - Our Future" and all of the Preps to Year 3 children were allowed free dress and were encouraged to wear green. Basically parents and caregivers were invited to stay and play with their children for the morning's activities. The children were allowed to join in any of the following activities which were organised by the fabulous teachers, aides, parent helpers, and upper primary students. Here is a list of the great activities for the morning..... *free sand play
*a recycling station - a pulley system was hitched up to the play fort where children loaded the bucket with recyclable materials and containers. These were then loaded up with the pulley into the 'fort' station.
*leaf printing
*making 'grass heads'
*handprints on a giant banner to celebrate Under 8's Day 2008
*threading around old greeting cards with holes punched around the edge
*chalk drawing on the concrete
*threading beads to make a necklace
*puzzles
*cardboard box construction
*bubble blowing
*making funny faces by gluing all sorts of bits and pieces onto compact discs.
*dancing The Year 6 students then put together some wonderful science activities for the children... *how many drops of liquid could be placed on a certain size coin.
*how water is filtered
*drawing on recycled paper
*dipping strips of paper into different food colours - observing the colour changes
*tornado in a bottle
*oil and water experiment
*making paper hats Each child also had a passport which was stamped at each activity station. It was such a wonderful morning - with so much for the children to be involved in. It really is worthwhile organising a school community celebration like this. The teachers and helpers do a wonderful job - thankyou!
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**Yes/No Our Community Cards 
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