Sketchnoting – We Love It!
Last week, we learnt about “sketchnoting”, the art of taking visual notes as we listen to a speaker. The students created sketchnotes whilst listening to the story of Ally, from our GRA novel, Fish In A Tree.
Last week, we learnt about “sketchnoting”, the art of taking visual notes as we listen to a speaker. The students created sketchnotes whilst listening to the story of Ally, from our GRA novel, Fish In A Tree.
Our Global Read Aloud book for 2015 is Fish In A Tree, by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. Before we started reading, we had a look at the following word cloud, which was generated from the book blurb on Wordle. We used… Continue Reading
This week, we are starting (early) the Global Read Aloud for 2014. This incredible global reading project was created in 2010 by Pernille Ripp, an inspiring teacher from the US. Each year in September/October, classrooms around the world read the… Continue Reading
Our class novel this term is The One And Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. The book is inspired by the true story of a Silverback Gorilla who spent 30 years of his life in captivity. This afternoon, we trialled the… Continue Reading