This year's CBCA Book Week had the theme Find Your Treasure. At Our Lady of the Way, our Library was decked out pirate style, including treasure maps, a treasure chest and an interactive model ship. For our Italian lessons, this prompted an opportunity to spark the students' intrinsic motivation. So how can teachers spark their … Continue reading Ahoy There Me Hearties!
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Learning Gems Uncovered
It's the end of our first term of 2018 already! Term 1 is always a time for getting to know new students and considering the best ways to transition each cohort and support their learning. At the beginning of the year, I wondered what I could do to help students with ASD, anxiety, or … Continue reading Learning Gems Uncovered
Teddy Bears’ Picnic: Italian and Music Lessons For Prep, Year 1 and Year 2
In Italian and Music learning experiences, students prepared for their Teddy Bears’ Picnic. In Italian lessons, students wrote an invitation to their teddy bears to come to lessons for a picnic. In their books, children chose 4 or more items of food and wrote down what their teddies like to eat. Year 1 and Year … Continue reading Teddy Bears’ Picnic: Italian and Music Lessons For Prep, Year 1 and Year 2
