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Little Tackers and an invitation April 23, 2007

Posted by Joseph Papaleo in Class Activities.
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I recently created an assignment for our Year 8 students and I passed it onto my colleagues to use. The teachers and students have loved it and they will be presenting their finished work to our Prep to Year 2 students soon.

For the task, the Year 8 students were asked to:

  1. do some research on the Mr. Men and Little Miss series written by Roger Hargreaves and explore the style of the books
  2. write a book for 3 - 7 year old children where they had to create a character
  3. once they finished the book, they had to produce an electronic version of their story for the children
  4. produce a CD with cover art to give to the Prep - Grade 2 students
  5. share their book and computer program with the students.

We are currently in the last phase of the project and the Year 8 students have been very keen on the project. The Prep to Grade 2 teachers seem to be keen to have the Year 8’s do some reading and sharing with the students, so that will be great.

The invitation: Are there other any teachers out there interested in looking at this project to see if a worldwide project can be implemented around”Little Tackers”? Older students can participate by writing, editing, illustrating, producing animations, podcasts, etc while younger students can be the real audience. Let me know if you are interested.

The assignment task is attached here (Little Tackers) for anyone to look at. I’ll be posting an example of one of the stories soon (after getting permission from the student and parent).

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   1. HelenM - April 25, 2007

Gosh … Mr Papaleo I wish I were in your class ! Just read about ’school uniforms of the future’ too. You have some great innovative ideas. You also have added more work for me - you have been so busy blogging great stuff lately - I now have to fit time into my week to make sure i read your latest post. I am also going to recommend some of these activities to my staff - Hope you don’t mind.

   2. Krystie Alleaume - August 8, 2007

Hi Jo,

I did a similar project with my students in Term 1. Here is an example of one finished product: http://globalteacher.org.au/2007/05/03/digital-story-little-miss-fit/

By the way, I love your blog and I will keep checking it regularly - you have some great ideas!


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