It’s that time of the year when we need to be reminded of what it means to be “Sun Smart”.
Let’s see if we can plan and practise strategies to promote sun safety in our school and community.
Starting off
Please watch these Behind the News episodes about
After you have watched the three episodes choose one episode and write up a summary of the important points – include the title of the episode and your name and post it in the comments section below.
Everyone needs some encouragement now and then, and today is the day you can create AWESOME!
Watch this pep-talk clip by KidPresident, and get ready to be the best you can be 🙂
Please leave a comment telling us what you will be creating, investigating or trying!
Many students in S23Jade have been thinking and talking about the environmental issues raised in the Dr Seuss story “The Lorax”.
They have discussed, acted out and spoken at a town meeting using the different perspectives of the creatures involved in the story.
As a “wrap up” activity students were asked to design a Thneed Factory that was more environmentally positive and sustainable than the one in the story. They were asked to consider the energy used, the pollution released and the effect on the living creatures around the factory, the noise and the transportation of the finished Thneeds around the country.
There were many fantastic ideas and suggestions made by the students – please look at the following pictures of parts of their work.
This week Stage 3 students were introduced to better search techniques to use when they are searching the internet for information.
Below is a You Tube clip that mentions a number of the strategies we used this week.
Why not watch it and then practise your searching techniques online?
Watch this anti-smoking video:
How effective do you think it is?
Why is it effective?
Any other comments?
This episode of Behind the News looks at smoking and the ways in which governments make laws to protect people.
Smoking Danger:
What do you think about smoking?
Should governments ban smoking?
What evidence do you have to support your views?
Look carefully at this KIDS FACT SHEET for important information about smoking.
Stage 3 students will be investigating drug education this term.
Have a look at some of these websites during this session and come up with some areas of interest, that you may want to explore further.
Drug Facts for Young People – Comic
It’s A fact! – You Tube video you will ahve to watch at home 🙁
Calling all Kindergarten AllStars – here is a video made especially for you by our Stage 3 students.
It will help you remember how to be safe online.
A big “Thank you” to Angelina, Erin and Rifa for making this video 🙂
Puppets Get Positive from KimPericles on Vimeo.
Here are some links for Stage 3 to use as they explore the issues around Road Safety and Schools.
Use these sites to get a “big picture” view of real world statistics and information from these government websites.
What you find out from these sites will help you come up with answers for the next part of our explorartion!
World Health Organization – Road Traffic Injuries
World Health Organization – Infographic
World Health Organization – Child Injury Prevention
Did you find any shocking, worrying, or surprising information? Let us know what you think in the comments.
Stage 3 have been working to think deeply and talk about their thinking this week.
We have been using text and words to think and talk about friendship – discussing definitions about friendships and looking at some famous quotes about friendship.
Next we tried to find an image that representes friendship – and we tried to link the visual elements of the image to the idea of friendship the image was conveying.
We looked at the colours, the perspective, the size and placemant of elements in the image. It was pretty tricky at first, but we tried again in another session and came up with some thoughtful responses.
Here are some books you might like to read about friendship:
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (JK Rowling)
Wonder (RJ Pallacio)
Charlotte’s Web (EB White)
Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
The One and Only Ivan (Katherine Applegate)
Holes (Louis Sachar)
Because of Winn-Dixie (Kate DiCamillo)
The Rainbow Fish (Marcus Pfister)
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda (Tom Angelberger)
The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
Stellaluna (Janelle Cannon)
Ivy and Bean books (Annie Barrows)
The Last Olympian – Percy Jackson (Rick Riordan)
The BFG (Roald Dahl)
Are there any other books about friendship that you have read and enjoyed? Add it in the comments section!
We are well on the way in our Digital Citizen Project this week. All groups are busy planning exactly what they will use in their presentations.
Now …
it gets CREATIVE!
Each group is making sure that their project is attention grabbing, different and special.
Some groups are using photos, animations, movies, stories, cartoons and puppets to make their plan interesting and applicable to the age group who will be their audience.
Great work – keep on thinking 🙂
Any questions that need clearing up? Ask them in the comments section below.