Saturday, April 16, 2011

Encouraging pre-literacy skills - Caroline Bowen PhD

Encouraging pre-literacy skills - Caroline Bowen PhD
The developmental stages in this article are the same for everybody, even though it is written for those with language disorders. Caroline Bowen has some excellent suggestions for supporting our children's writing and reading.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Room 23 Portraits using ART RAGE in computer lab time.
We used ART RAGE to paint our portraits. Exploring portraits is part of our learning about identity and place. ART AGE is a digital art programme. We learnt how to use different tools and practice mouse control. We learnt how to use the tracing option and to use two layers, so that our background did not mix into our sketch.