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Week 8 Reflection

This week we were asked to search using the hashtag again from weeks 7 reflection but using other social media other than TUMBLR.

By doing so, looking at Facebook and Instagram, you find so much more information within these platforms.

The findings on facebook, you see pages dedicated to Beatrix Potter and photos from her stories that people share within the comments that people post.

On Instagram you see peoples post’s of different photos all around the world of where the TV series was filmed to merchandise and productions of the different stories written by Beatrix Potter.

Using the hashtag within learning helps students to placing what they have written online or photos posted into categories, so that others can follow or to like the information shared.

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Week 7 Reflection:

Researching a #hashtag.

This weeks activity is to research a picture book using the TUMBLR hashtag.

One picture book I was hoping to find using the hashtag was “Tales of Peter Rabbit and his Friends”. Especially since it was discussed in my week one reflection.

Luckily it did pop up when using this hashtag. When typing in the #picturebook in the search bar I came across a blogger who collects everything relating to Beatrix Potter and all her stories. If you would like to follow them their name is @peterrabbit2007. By looking through what they have posted, you can see why so many people born in the that era to now loved the stories because of the illustrations and the way the books where written for each character. 

I would happily recommend this book and/or the tv series to anyone young and old.

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Week 6 Reflection

For this weeks reflection, We are looking at grade 5 and 6 videos on SplashABC.  After watching these videos we are meant to choose a video to do a front-loading activity. Unfortunately I cannot access the website and view the videos to complete this activity. 

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Week 5 Reflection:

For this weeks activity (front-loading) we are asked to write a sentence using some or all of these words:

- hollow, died, night, cold, no, strength, transparent, food and silence. 

Sentence: “I feel transparent and hollow in this cold silent night, with no food to give strength. I’m as good as I slowly died inside”.

Finding a front loading activity that I would create for the students, would be to explore the front cover of the text. This will help them to explore up coming lessons about what they will be learning from the text.

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Week 4 Reflection:

Classroom Displays-

Having a classroom displays is a great way fro students to learn about different learning topics.

Good Content to have within the classroom for students to continue their learning would be having a topic called “Around the world”. This will allow students to see where their class mates background are from and to also learn the food delicacies and their languages.

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Week 3 Reflection:

This weeks reflection was to focus on the different ways we make meaning from text, within the last week.

- texts from family and friends

- facebook messages to communicate with family and friends via messenger

- emails for personal use

- articles for University assignments

- reading novels during my spare time.

From this list, I know that I read everyday, mostly for University use and for pleasure.

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#reading

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Week 2 Reflection

This week’s prompt was to design a prediction activity that goes with a cover of a particular book. The book chosen is “Are you seeing me?” by Darren Groth. A prediction is an activity that learners carry out before they start reading and or listening to the text and predict what will happen in the story just by looking at the cover of the book. Then they will confirm or deny their predictions. 

A good prediction activity for the class or a small group would be to describe what is happening on the cover. As you can see their is a lot going on in the cover. As they start thinking of what might happen in the story, their ideas will be written up on the board and by the end of the book they will see if their predictions are correct. 

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These books inspired me to become creative and to read more. 

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Week One Reflection:

One Memory I have of being read to by my parents was Beatrix Potters’ “Tales of Peter Rabbit and his Friends”. Beatrix wrote so many beautiful stories about many different animals. The way she wrote each store captured my imagination every time and the beautiful detailed drawings of each character. The many stories from “The Tale of Petter Rabbit” to “The Roly-Poly Pudding” captured so many children and even parents. I can’t wait to show my children one day what I grew up reading and to read to them as well as showing them the mini TV series that brought each character to life. 

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Swan Lake from Ballet Stories for Young Children. 

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Beautiful classic story

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We lost the creator of Paddington Bear yesterday. RIP Michael Bond. Thanks for countless childhood memories and for the memories I now have of Paddington with my own child.

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Such a cute film and book