Entries Tagged as 'Primary Literacy Activities'

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Guji Guji

After reading this lovely story, students in the primary division played with Audacity to create the opposing voices of Guji Guji’s duck siblings and the crocodiles who come to tempt him over to the dark side.  Here is my offering!
Guji Guji
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Get Caught Reading – Another Year

Last week I held end-of-year celebrations for the members of the Reading Hall of Fame, all 163 of them.  After the Hall of Fame closed for the year, on May 29th,  I spent the better part of a week checking a bin full of reading logs that students had submitted at the last minute, and [...]

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Our Mattlands!

After reading Mattland, students in Grades 1, 2 and 3 created their own imaginary lands using Smart Notebook 10.  Here are just a few of their efforts!

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Northern Lights The Soccer Trails by Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak and Vladyana Krykorka

When Kataujaq was small, she loved her mother. She loved sniffing her, because that is the way that the Inuit kiss, and hugging her. In the spring, she loved holding onto her mother while they travelled across the melting sea ice in a canoe tied to the dogsled, slipping precariously from ice to [...]

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Tiktala

Children in the Primary grades have listened to the story of Tiktala, the young Inuit girl who dreams of being a soapstone carver so that she can become famous and admired and wealthy, but who, after months spent living in the body of a harp seal, discovers a new and vital artistic and spiritual purpose [...]

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Tiktala by Margaret Shaw-MacKinnon and László Gál

A young girl named Tiktala wants to become a soapstone carver so that she can become rich and famous, but is told by a village elder that she must go in search of a spirit helper.  Transformed into a harp seal, she meets Tulimak, a seal who hates humans, who has been chosen to help [...]

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Jeffrey and the Sloth

After we read Jeffrey and the Sloth, children in the Primary Division tried their hands and doodling. They went to ArtPad, a website that allows you to paint virtual pictures, and created some wonderful paintings. I wouldn’t mind have many of these pieces on my walls! Simply click on the image to [...]

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Poems by Children in Grades 1, 2 and 3

Flowers
Pretty flowers
look good in the sun.
They are also gentle.
Flowers are nice too.
Beautiful flowers are sweet.
Flowers smell so sweet.
Pretty flowers are so neat.
They are good too.
I love FLOWERS!
by I and A Grade 3
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FRIENDS ARE FRIENDS
Friends are nice and kind
nice to me and you
Good friends are
Generous friends play with me
Friends are graceful and kind
Friends like to [...]