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Welcome to K-3 Teacher Resources Tips & Updates Newsletter No. 26 September 2009 Contents.... Welcome to OCTOBER..!!!!! Yep, only 2 and a half months until Christmas! One day I might get this Newsletter out by the end of the month!!!! Ahhh the joys of working from home Motherhood ! I'm sure many can relate...thanks for understanding! OK, school holidays here in September and with moving house - we had a weee bit of a break to refresh and reload...ah - but - even during small breaks - new resources are still magically produced...... Our NEW Photo Gallery of our resources 'In Action' is looking fabulous (if your photos are not up yet - don't despair - we are working on them - thanks.) Don't forget - send in 4 useable photos of our resources 'in action' and have a year's membership on us....TAKE A LOOK... Finally don't forget the best way to stay up to date with new additions to our site is to join our RSS mail - updates via email whenever someone adds a new teaching idea or a new resource is added. Enjoy..... HERE'S TO OCTOBER ! CHARITY UPDATE - WE HAVE RAISED $280 SO FAR AND RISING - KEEP THOSE TEACHING IDEAS COMING - THANK YOU THAT IS GREAT! Teachers Zone Update...We now have 751 Zonees. *****PLEASE JOIN IN - ADD YOUR OWN FILES, PICTURES AND VIEWS ON THE K-3 DISCUSSION FORUMS****** Contact Me with more suggestions and ideas *Winners - Teaching Ideas Contributions.. It really is so very difficult to choose winners as you have all contributed so many wonderful ideas. We just want to thank each one of you for your ideas - they have all been so helpful to so many Teachers...... Congratulations to the following winners this month.... Congratulations to K for ........ Congratulations to Andrea for ... Sharing her 'Learners for Life' Bulletin Board Display... You can now view past winners here... ***Please share your ideas - Read others and be in the running to have your Teaching Idea in our next Newsletter, as well as your next Year's Membership for Free. This month's question... October 2009 Do you use an ipod in your learning environment? Please share with us how you use them and what apps are appropriate for K-3. *Ways to Keep Track of 'What's New'
Using ipods in the Classroom... Haven't things changed over the years. Remember typewriters and roneos, cassette tapes and do you even remember playing music CD's !!! Now we have computers, printers, IWB's, laptops, and ipods. Many Teachers love their IWB's if they are lucky enough to have one - and computers are almost second nature these days in many classrooms - but what about ipods ? For those of you who have not entered the ipod touch / or iphone world - basically the ipods and I believe particularly the ipod touch has the potential to be a significant learning tool. Now, I know of many early childhood teachers who are ordering sets of the ipod touch for their classrooms as part of their classroom budgets. Nowadays with ipod educational applications, books and podcasts growing so quickly they have almost become a 'mini computer'. Here are a few examples of how they can be used in our K-3 environments....most of the ipod downloads are available through itunes - this takes a little getting used to and to explore their store you do need to download itunes software - but really is worthwhile and with time - organising the downloads is really quite easy and efficient.... *download all your songs into categorised playlists - easy to find - easy to play. *use in listening centres - there is a growing number of stories, books and podcasts available in ipod format - for example - itunes now has all the Paul Jennings books available as well as many other children's books. I am absolutely sure this will continue to grow... *if you can have 4-6 available - they would be ideal as a literacy and maths 'group activity' - reinforcement of concepts *many of maths and literacy ipod applications are available for download - all terrific for concept practice (not just playing games, there really are some great educational apps and they continue to expand) Now I am sure this is just the tip of the iceberg and there are many, many more uses out there - I have started a thread over at our Teaching Ideas Directory where we can share ways of using the ipod touch as well as favourite educational ipod apps, books, songs, podcasts.... Cheers to all... *New Resource Additions to Membership... **40 Toys Theme Words ----- FREE DOWNLOAD **56 Positive Words and Phrases
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