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We Are Writers is a writing initiative from Scholastic which gives every child the chance to be an author published in their school’s very own book. Are you are aware of the project? What are your thoughts?
On Tuesday, a woman named Mary was in Cana to attend a wedding. A large number of guests, including her son, a man named Jesus, also attended the wedding. Guests at the wedding were reportedly having a good time until the host ran out of wine. At that point, it seemed that the happy celebration might turn into a disaster. Some of the wedding guests thought that perhaps Jesus might have a solution to the problem, so they reported to him that they were out of wine. When told about the problem, Jesus at first seemed unwilling to do anything, but after some encouragement from his mother, he finally agreed to help. Eyewitnesses at the wedding reported that Jesus noticed several large water jars nearby and instructed some servants to fill them with water. After the jars had been filled with water, he told them to dip some of the water out of the jars and take it to the man who was in charge of serving the wine. When the wine steward tasted the water, he discovered that the water had been turned into wine. Wedding guests were amazed at the turn of events and said that the wine was the best that they had ever tasted. One lady even said to Jesus, “WOW!!! This is the best wine I’ve ever tasted!” As a result of this miraculous event, many people are following Jesus everywhere he goes, and many believe that he might even be the long-awaited Messiah.
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Thank goodness for Shoo Rayner- and Viking Vik. I’ve come very late to this article as I plan a “Norway Week” full of stories and model-making activities (sadly no swords but definitely shields) as a welcome relief from synthetic phonics (for me and my boy dominated Year 1 class). I’ve been through the whole Literacy Strategy debacle, working upwards of 50 hours a week to train my colleagues and get all the planning in place, through its implementation, only to see no improvement in KS1 “reading and writing standards” and lots of good practice and enthusiasm lost. But I’ve always held on to the certainty that reading should be for PLEASURE and I’ve always tried to include a range of stories that will engage and inspire my pupils- boys AND girls (including The Three Pigs, magic and monsters). The majority of my pupils do show an enthusiasm for books (even though some would prefer to listen rather than read themselves) and most leave my class able to read, but I can’t help feeling discouraged whenever the Government (or whoever) comes up with a new initiative that is guaranteed to solve all our problems!! PLEASE just leave us experienced teachers alone to get on with our jobs. By all means offer us new ideas, strategies, materials, but please don’t claim that any of them are a cure-all and let us make our own judgements about what will work for our children.
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I love this book cause I read it in class
3 days ago about
Please send some resources. Many thanks
5 days ago about
It is the bestest book in da world.
8 days ago about
i like this poem and this should have some more alliteration and metaphors and similes to make it more interesting
9 days ago about
i dont think that it is very good
9 days ago about
We have published our own book on Snapfish. We would love to do something like this again.
11 days ago about
Apologies to dianaalice and anyone else who has had trouble accessing the Snow Duck story. The story was tagged as a Child Ed resource by mistake, but should now be available for Nursery Ed subscribers.
13 days ago about
I’ve mainly worked in upper KS2 and must say that I hadn’t thought about the formation of the letters for this age group. However I am now working throughout Primary, including FS and have realised that for them it is essential that the letters are formed correctly. It is then useful to continue to model it throughout KS1.
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