Choosing books to read...

Read Alikes
Do you ever get 'stuck' in the same genre or with the same author? Here are two sites you might like to use to help you expand your reading experiences:

Read Alikes 

In Read Alikes you can scan through the different genre and click on the title of a book you have read or are familiar with. This will bring up different options for you to try. Each click takes you into lots of other options with full bibliography and reviews as well!

Literature Map
In Literature-map, you write in the name of an author and you're given lots of 'floating' options of similar authors to try.

This post is from Mrs Cameron's library blog page - well worth a look. Here is the link http://libraryfrankley.blogspot.co.nz/

Learning with Digital Technologies parent evening slideshow

This is the slideshow used in the Room 10 and 11 parent evening held last week. More evenings will be offered throughout the year.

Parent Newsletter Term 1 Week 10

Here is a great recipe from Abbie:

Camp:The nightline...

It was pitch black. I couldn't see much and I kept tripping. I felt my surroundings and lead myself around the roots.

I was walking the nightline trail with groups 4&5. My hands clung onto the rope, and I was trying not to fall. The rope started to lift and so i went under it with fear. 

I heard people falling over, which was good for me but not for them. I knew where the slippery parts were now. I carefully guided myself around the corner, and felt around. I didn't realise that there was a big step ahead of me so I kicked my foot on the pile of hard, wet dirt. "Ouch!" I groaned. I took a big step and another which was followed by another. Finally the course ended and people turned on their torches. "I'm glad that's over," I thought to myself.

By Eliala

Blog Post of the Week - Shanelle

Shanelle's Maths Learning - click here

Empathy

On Friday we took a look at a video about Empathy. Empathy is one of your important attitudes that learners need to have to be effective. Here is the video:

Skimming and Scanning

This week in class we introduced the reading skills of Skimming and Scanning. We talked about how they are useful, particularly with non-fiction and complex text.

Skimming and Scanning help us to get an understanding of the main points or find a specific bit of information.

Here is an image that Abbie found for her blog originally taken from the Oxford Education site:

You can read Abbie's blog post about it here: Abbie's Week of Learning