Grade 5 Cathie: Roxburgh Homestead PS, Victoria

A response to Pearl Verses The World.

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Kinder/Prep, Leighland Christian School,
Burnie, TAS

At Leighland C.S. Burnie, the Kinder/Prep consists of 13 Preps and 10 Kinders, ages ranging from 41/2 to 6 years old. The kinders attend for three days a week. Isabella's Garden fit in well with the K/P theme of Winter, and both classes worked collaboratively on the four large seasons posters. The individual artwork and writing responses was created by the prep students. The text for the large posters was derived from a graffiti writing activity where the preps had a go at writing down their ideas. Through this project the students became familiar with the text from the book and were very enthusiastic about completing the large collages, which took about 2 weeks to complete. They were also more familiar with the concept of seasonal cycles, which linked in to the work some students had been doing in guided reading around life cycles.

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Nowra Public School
Nowra, NSW

An innovation on the story "Clancy and Millie and the Very Fine House" by Libby Gleeson. This innovation was written by Corey, Renae, Luke, Kali and Kurt of Pink reading group, 1W, with help from Mrs Sansom. The story was narrated and illustrated by Corey, Renae, Luke, Kali and Kurt.

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Roxburgh Homestead Primary School, Roxburgh Park, VIC

A variety of responses from many classes across our school.

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 7S Santa Maria College
Perth, WA

Alice has been taken away from her parents, in Colombia.

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Class 5/6DP, : St. Mel's School
Shepparton,  Victoria

A digital story about A.B Paterson's 'Mulga Bill'. Our class were looking at Classic Australian Literature during bookweek and also digital stories, so we made a digital story using still images with voice over. It is a retell.
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We did a shortened version as we entered this too late to do what was recommended. We held the celebration final and invited students and parents. I have posted a third of the entries to an edublog. Finalists to be added.
Is a blog site and the files are saved as powerpoint files.
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St. Patrick's Primary School
Gympie

Year 1 students spent time reading lots of Aboriginal legends.  They worked in groups to brainstorm a new Aboriginal legend and then decided to write their own legend about "How the platypus got its bill".  Each group worked on the text for a page.  Each student was given a specific task.  Some were given the job of illustrating a page in KidPix while others were given the job of narrating a page using an MP3 recorder.  The digital story was produced using Windows Moviemaker.  The sound files were combined for import into Moviemaker using Audacity.
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