At some point in history each of these buildings have claimed the title of ‘World’s Tallest Building’. This code breaking activity has the students work out a few interesting facts about these buildings by deciphering roman numerals.
At some point in history each of these buildings have claimed the title of ‘World’s Tallest Building’. This code breaking activity has the students work out a few interesting facts about these buildings by deciphering roman numerals.
Here are three more cards to add a little variety to learning new vocabulary in guided reading sessions.
Download my Vocabulary Detective cards – set two.
I’m will finish a project, I will finish a project. Here is a poster for causal connectives for the explanation text type.
Download the A4 version over at the beginnings of my explanation text type webpage.
I love to have a performance focus in my classrooms and the Free Harvest Sound Effects Player software adds a whole extra dimension to any play, readers’ theatre or poetry recital.
I’m with @BernajeanPorter when she says that when telling & performing stories we are looking for more than ‘polite listening’ from the audience. I believe we need the audience to engage with the performance and the actors need to explore the production values that will make an ‘ordinary’ piece of text ‘extrodinary’.
I also believe the message we send to students when we are prepared to get outside our comfort zones, tinker with new tools and be seen to be doing ‘new with the new’ is very, very important in developing confident creative thinkers.
Check out a few of the tips and tricks I’ve worked out for using this sound effects software and the link to the download over on my website.
Enjoy!
Adrian
When teaching chess I find things run a whole lot smoother if all students know that ‘If you touch a piece you move it’. You can download this full size poster and a few others from the Chess section of my site.
Last night I was having a bit of a tinker on the Ipad using Adobe Ideas. It is a simple vector based drawing program with the ability to alter the opacity of colour. The program also allows you to email your ideas directly from within the program. You can also add a photo layer which offers the ability to create a greater variety of artwork.
Pros – it’s FREE!!! 50 levels of undo, email built in, integrates into Photoshop and Illustrator if you email as pdf, great gallery make browsing your work easy
Cons – could do with a text tool, a bit ‘clumsy’ drawing with your finger & manipulating the colour tool is a bit slow.
At the moment I’m still out on weather or not this tool will add to my work-flow. I like the way I can try out different colour schemes but I find pen and paper a much quicker way to explore design. I will however keep experimenting as that is how we discover what works for us.
Just finished off a page on the roman numerals site that outlines some of the statistics of the Collosseum. Wow!!!
eg Roman records show that during one particular festival, held in CCXL CE, a staggering: MM gladiators; LXX lions; XL wild horses; XXX elephants; XXX leopards; XX wild asses; XIX giraffes; X elks; X hyenas; X tigers; I hippopotamus & I rhinoceros were killed.
The idea of the site is to make pretty dull topic a little more engaging 
When taking guided reading sessions I was always trying out new strategies. Here is my first set of Vocabulary Detective cards. They are designed for teachers to flip through when planning guided reading sessions to ensure they are using a variety of strategies for exploring vocabulary. Download the first set of cards from the Vocabulary Detective section of my website.
I’ve been playing with Poser 8
My machinima interpretation of Macbeth is finally complete. It has taken a lot longer than I had anticipated but in the end I’m very pleased with the way it has turned out. I am also really pleased with the amount of problems I’ve overcome and skills I’ve learnt along the way.
Do have a look at the interpretation and forward it on to anyone you think can use it.
Thanks
Adrian
PS What personal project are you currently doing?
