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More puppets! It’s an obsession!
Bargain basement animal puppets at $3 each from The Reject Shop, Penrith Plaza. Not sure why the Dalmatian has a yellow nose. I originally rejected these four puppets as my least favourites, but at...
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Eeeek! More puppets – enough, enough?
The chick puppet (above left) was probably originally a duckling, too, but when I found a different duckling (right) a few months later, I sewed the beak of the first one into a point. An assortment...
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Book Week looms!
It’s Term 3, so the first Book Week displays from classes have started to arrive in the school library! This has been an annual tradition at my school long before I arrived here. The displays become a...
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Reading Picnic 2012
Today was Penrith Public School’s annual reading picnic, this time celebrating our 97% success rate in the Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) in this, the National Year of Reading. It was also the...
View ArticleWe are surrounded by RED
Class 3/4L recently had an extra session in the school library, so we decided to create a digital slideshow, inspired by the powerful cover art of the new picture book, One red shoe, by Karin Gruss...
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Colour blind!
At one of my past schools, the Principal kept suggesting that I abandon the Dewey Decimal System and create some colour-coded Key Learning Areas (KLAs) in the Teacher Reference section of the school...
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When you’ve worn out your welcome!
It’s been a long time since I’ve made a “shoestring makeover” update! The school library’s “WELCOME” mat had lost all of its signage due to four years of kids trampling in and out. With only an hour to...
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Celebrating Book Week 2014: Connect to Reading
Happy Book Week! Congratulations to Shaun Tan for his gold-medal award-winning picture book, The rules of summer: Illustrator Shaun Tan – ‘Rules of summer’ [HD] Books and Arts Daily, ABC RN Our school...
View ArticleLibrary rules – Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students
Next week in Library lessons, students from K-2 are investigating rules. Classroom rules, playground rules and home rules are being discussed in class (and in the library), giving us an opportunity to...
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Book Week displays come rolling in!
Books light up our world by 1S Click HERE for a slideshow of each class display. UPDATE: The students who created this amazing 3D display for Scary night just heard back from the author, Lesley...
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CBCA Book Week 2017: Escape to Everywhere
Here are this year’s class displays to celebrate CBCA Book Week! Click HERE to view a slideshow. We also had a visit from author Bruce Pickworth, a former teacher at our school. He introduced his book...
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