Whakawhanaungatanga


 * Welcome to our first Town & Country get together for the year - Wednesday 16 March 2011**

Here are the links to the literacy sites that were shared by some of our Lead Teachers today:


 * Some of these youtube videos clips were shared today by Melissa from Central Normal School - they are especially great for junior classes:

Doubles! Doubles! (I can add doubles song) - @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPKoNJH1Jg Whatcha' Gonna' Do? (Count by 2's, 5's, 10's) - @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTYxfltyPgg Jolly Phonics - @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGpsVmWLRFA Word Families - @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UAajWf0TLo

//All of these searches come up with more suggestions for you to click on. You could embed the links for these and more songs onto a class blog or wiki so you don't have to look for them each time and so you don't have the distraction of comments underneath. Ask your Lead Teacher how to do this - I'm sure they will be more than happy to show you.//


 * Mel from Tokomaru School shared the wonderful world of Bubble Dome with us.

//This New Zealand site has free activities that provide a child-friendly motivation to write.//


 * Ronald from Central Normal shared Wacky Web Tales with us.

//This site is fantastic for teaching middle to senior classes about language features in an authentic context and is a fun shared reading activity.//


 * The following website provides many links to educational Web 2.0 tools for you to use in your classroom - Cool Tools for Schools!

//Don't forget to share any new Web 2.0 discoveries with your Lead Teachers. They will upload the links for other teachers to see on the @Lead Teacher Voice page of this wiki.//