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It's Water Week!

It is Water Week this week.

Find a time to come in during the week and try out our interactive "How Much Water ...?" Displays.

Speed Geeking!

On Saturday March 17^th The LRC and ICT Committee held the annual T4L or technology for learning morning.

 

After a lovely breakfast, courtesy of the school, staff were treated to a special keynote session live from London, on  3 trends in education.

Next, everyone engaged in a speed geeking session. Teachers spent 4 minutes at a station in a circuit of 13 stations and moved on to the next station each time the whistle was blown. During each stop they learned about a different T4L tool. Some of the themes included  less traditional teaching and learning tools such as World of Warcraft, Minecraft, Lego and incredibots, as well as newer tools including iPads and digital flip books. There were plenty more amazing ideas shared at this time. They are outlined in the copy of our program below.

Next, staff members participated in 2 digital playground sessions in which they were able further explore the tools  they were most interested in.We chose two sessions as we had more topics than presenters and this allowed us to swap over between the two.

These were all dynamic learning experience, but what made these sessions even more exciting is that many of them were lead by our ABC students.We had a total of 17 students volunteer to run sessions, both speed geeking and in the digital playground. We gave them some guidelines, talked to them about what they could do and they took it from there. They were fantastic! Many members of staff came up to me after the fact to mention how impressed they were by what the students were doing.

PLANNING

 A Google Site was created to house content for the session in the form of web pages, one per idea. The initail Google Docs planning was  also transferred over to the site. This included lists of students, activity rotations  and presenters, circulation maps and links to the program. Google Forms were used to collect attendee lists as well as after session feedback from teachers. This particular site is restricted to staff members only, but you can get a taste of some of the sessions by looking at a few of the pages which I cloned for my Inset Wiki.

Please check out our Flickr Set and Facebook Album for more on this great event!      

Brain Awareness Week!

 

It is Brain Awareness Week! Come visit the interactive display.  Exercise your brain with our games, puzzles, riddles and brain teaser. Try out fun balancing challenges, collect brain friendly recipes and bookmarks and read up on how to keep your brain healthy. 

Remember to sleep 9 hours a night, eat breakfast each day, and exercise your brain and your body!


Check out the LRCABC Flickr gallery for great photo updates each day.

Read an E-Book Week

It is Read an E-Book Week this week! Join in on the fun, read e-books, have a photograph taken of you reading an e-book and try out the exciting daily competition. You might win one of many great prizes.

See Mrs. Garcia, Yensi or Hilda in the LRC for more information.

Book Week Update Wednesday 29th February, 2012

Spanish Book Drive - A collection box is set up at the front of the LRC for Spanish language book donations.  So far it is completely empty! :-{  

Please drop off your old Spanish children’s books. It is for a great cause.

The Book Fair continues tomorrow and Friday from 8:00-3:00. There is a great selection of books to choose from so come along and check them out.

Character Day is on Friday- Dress up as your favourite book character (or come as Harry Potter on his summer holidays).

Book Week Update

Book Week Update!
Thank you to all of you who contributed to the  Book Assembly. If you want to join the Hobbit Bookathon but were unable to see Mrs. Garcia please make sure you see her or Mr. Keslake tomorrow and we will arrange a catch up session. We will continue listening each afternoon for the rest of the week, so do come along.

The Book Fair starts tomorrow Wednesday, and will run for the rest of the week, from 8:00-3:00. Come see and buy!

Come along to the LRC today and on Friday to create digital Flip Books with Hilda. Finished books will be published on the web, printed off and bound so that they can be donated to a local library.

Check out our Book Week photos and join in on the fun. Pose for a poster. Check out all our great photos at

Check back for regular updates.