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‘typhoon haiyan’ – HOW CAN WE HELP?
http://www.abc.net.au/btn/stories.htm
What do you know about typhoons?
What do you know about ‘typhoon haiyan’?
Who has been affected by typhoon haiyan?
How have they been affected by typhoon haiyan?
How would you feel if you were living in the Philippines?
What can St Elizabeth’s Primary School do to help the typhoon victims?
ERP We are trying to link our interests to these key learning intentions.
Describe the significance of people and events in bringing about change.
Identify the causes and effects of change on particular communities.
Identify how and why Australia became a nation.
Describe aspects of the past that remained the same.
Describe how you would like to link your interests to these Learning Intentions.
Life is Good!
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The understanding of human dignity begins in the story of creation (Gen1: 26–27) where we are told that human beings are created in the image and likeness of God. God saw that everything created was good.
The fundamental principles of Catholic social teaching are: Human life is sacred from the moment of conception until natural death, and the human dignity of every person must be recognised.
Concern for the health of its citizens requires that society helps in the attainment of living conditions that allow them to grow and reach maturity: food and clothing, housing, health care, basic education, employment, and social assistance.
Through your research what organisation have you discovered that promotes life and in particular is focussed on restoring dignity?
Who are they?
What do they do?
Where do they work?
How does their program restore dignity?
How long has the program been running?
How successful is it?
Natural Disasters
Photo Credit: Sharon Davis via CompfightWhat have you learnt about different natural disasters?
Why do you think we learn about these at primary school?
What surprised you?
What are you still wondering about?
Australian Politicians
There are many interesting politicians in Australia’s history. Here are just a few!
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I am, You are, We Are Australian!
What is National Identity?
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Have a look at the activities on this page, you can work through them with abuddy if you need to understand National Identity better.
http://we-are-australian.wikispaces.com/Activity+1
What is Australia’s National Identity to you and what does it say about people who are Australian?
Is there a ‘typical’ Australian? If so, how would you describe this person? If not, why not?
Are Australians really different from other peoples? If so, what are the main elements of this ‘difference’?
How are Australians the same?
What are the common important beliefs and activities that keep Australians together?
Where do you see variety and diversity in the Australian people?
Have a read of these for some ideas….
http://spinneypress.com.au/books/australian-national-identity/
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-stories/australian-identity
http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-articles/australian-identity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt60-pHAh_o
Some questions to think about…
•What do ‘The Australians’ look like?
•What is/are the language/s of ‘The Australians’ like?
•What religions and customs do they practise?
•What work and activities do ‘The Australians’ like to do?
•How do ‘The Australians’ rule themselves?
•What do ‘The Australians’ believe in and value as people?
Learning Reflections Term3 Week 9
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Every week we set our Learning Intentions. You work towards achieving those Learning Intentions throughout the week. This is a great way for you to personalise your learning. At the end if the week the you think about your learning; have Iachieved what I set out to learn and identify any areas I still need to focus on.
Usually the students write these learning intentions in their peronal journals. This week we have asked you to post your learning intentions on the blog.
We are wondering what will happen when we share them on the blog?
I wonder if this will make you more accountable to these learning intention and wheher you’ll find that you are more successful because you publically said what you intended to learn?
You have also been asked to think about the success criteria for your learning intention.
Our whole community Learning Intentions this week are:
We are learning to:
Take responsability for our learning (by completing work in the set time, by asking for help, by recording the instructions on our ipads…)
Reflect on the learning we have done this year in Numeracy
Identify which Numeracy skills and concepts we personally need to do work on and…
Improve our understanding of various Numeracy skills and concepts
Prepare an oral presentation and a Powerpoint presentation as two seperate things
Teach others new skills and encourage them to use blogging as a way of learning
Welcome all parents to our Blog!!
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This morning we are having a morning tea with parents who a keen to find out how blogs work, what we use them for and how they can comment on their childrens learning.
What have you found out about our blogs?
Learning Reflections Level 5/6 MP Term 3 Week 8
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Every week we set our Learning Intentions. You work towards achieving those Learning Intentions throughout the week. This is a great way for you to personalise your learning. At the end if the week the you think about your learning; have Iachieved what I set out to learn and identify any areas I still need to focus on.
Usually the students write these learning intentions in their peronal journals. This week we have asked you to post your learning intentions on the blog.
We are wondering what will happen when we share them on the blog?
I wonder if this will make you more accountable to these learning intention and wheher you’ll find that you are more successful because you publically said what you intended to learn?
You have also been asked to think about the success criteria for your learning intention.
How will you know if you are successful?
By posting your learning intentions on the blog, the whole community including your parents have an opportunity to comment on your success!
Our whole community Learning Intentions this week are:
We are learning to:
- take responsability for our learning (by completing work in the set time, by asking for help, by recording the instructions on our ipads…)
- read analog clocks
- record the time on analog clocks
- convert 24 hour time to standard (am/pm) time
- calculate elapsed time problems
- discuss the texts we read using the Literature circles roles in order to improve our undertsanding of the text
- write a biography
- use PowerPoint to direct our learning
- use PowerPoint to record our learning using mixed media