I was proud of my students today. They brainstormed this creative paragraph on the data projector, to describe being bored in a library, as part of our unit on communicating our emotions called Deal With It. (The Principal is resisting the next unit being called Get A Life.) They voted to situate it in a [...]
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Shared writing with P8 (Grade 5) at TISA
February 12th, 2009 · No Comments
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Sunday afternoon
February 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Having finished that major assignment during the week I’ve a weekend almost to myself. Yesterday I spent hours assimilating Spanish sentence structure while reading bilingual children’s books. It’s a great way of understanding new words linked to pictures and seeing the words used with verbs and sentence structure. I’ll have to change them over tomorrow [...]
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It’s been a tough term.
December 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I’ve been a little distracted since returning in August.
First a bar opened downstairs. The sequencer kicked in 5 nights each from 9.30pm which put an end to studying and sleep. I would walk across the yard to another teacher’s spare room and then back again pre-dawn to start the day. The school finally moved me [...]
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Patrick Moberg comments
November 6th, 2008 · No Comments
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Change of web page
November 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
I now have a new web address www.leighnewton.com.au
I’ve had if for a while actually. I created the new site while I was waiting for the old page to expire so that the new server could reserve the url for me. The new server however was slack in following through and a web crawler has taken [...]
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