Friday, May 15, 2009

trying wordpress out

We're trying out Wordpress, so visit us at our new site.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

IDP Egg Experiment

IDP Egg Experiment Summary - click to read the detailed experiment.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Helen Dunmore The Deep
Geronimo Stilton Thea Stilton and The Dragon's Code
Patricia Reilly Giff Pictures of Hollis Woods
EL Konisburg Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and me, Elizabeth

by EL

Monday, March 23, 2009

Michael Ende

Two great reads by Michael Ende

Momo

The Never Ending Story

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Just bought

Kinokuniya

Penguin Readers Level 5 Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier

Penguin Readers Level 6 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky

Katherine Paterson Lyddie

Suzanne Fisher Staples Shabanu

Virginia Euwer Wolff The Mozart Season

Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

Betsy Byars The Summer of the Swans

Roger Lea MacBride In the Land of the Big Red Apple

Cynthia Kadohata Weedflower

Jacqueline Woodson Feathers

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Just bought

Just bought:

Eloise McGraw The Moorchild

Megan Whaler Turner The Thief

Micheal Ende The Never Ending Story

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Project Gutenberg

Books online

Online Book Catalog - Overview

George MacDonald

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald

ERP P5
At the Back of the North Wind

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1593106815/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

Reviews:

Finally, an almost lyrical treatment of child death which avoids sombreness without descending into such banality. At the Back of the North Wind was also written for children by an active churchman touched by current controversies. Like Dickens he gets behind the pale face on the pillow: the young hero's fantastic excursions are also, we gradually realize, the wanderings of a sick child's mind; Diamond's hazy presentiments, hopes and fears are externalized with haunting delicacy. The choice of imagery in which they are externalized is novel, not only in detail but in general conception, and the effort to make sense out of mortal suffering without either minimizing or escaping from it is perhaps as successful as it could be. Read more here ===>
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/vn/death/banjeree6.html

At the Back of the North Wind online

ERP P4

The Princess and the Goblin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_and_the_Goblin

Anne Thaxter Eaton writes in ‘’A Critical History of Children's Literature’’ that ‘’The Princess and the Goblin’’ and its sequel “quietly suggest in every incident ideas of courage and honor. ^[1] Jeffrey Holdaway writing in New Zealand Art Monthly said that both books start out as “normal fairytales but slowly become stranger”, and that they contain layers of symbolism similar to that of Lewis Carroll’s work.^[2]

The Princess and the Goblin online

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Three Cups of Tea (Young Reader's Edition)

The book's title comes from a Balti proverb:

“	The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time you take tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share a cup of tea, you become family...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Cups_of_Tea

For class library 3/3/2009.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Anne Fine

http://www.annefine.co.uk/

ERP:
Step by wicked step

L M Elliot

http://www.lmelliott.com/

E bought one of her books - 'Flying South'. I picked it up the other day (didn't really like the cover) but found it to be quite a read. It's set in the 60's in the USA, when JFK (President John Kennedy) was assassinated, then Martin Luther King and also JFK's brother, Robert Kennedy.

The story started with her talking about her friendship with the gardener, Doc, and from there it engages the reader.

Saturday, February 28, 2009

REFINING HOW WE DELIVER ABILITY-DRIVEN EDUCATION

28 Sep 2006 MOE Press Release

http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2006/pr20060928.htm

Gifted students to spend more time in class with other schoolmates

Ho Ai Li Fri, Nov 02, 2007
The Straits Times

http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20071102-33860.html

A TEACHER'S PERSPECTIVE OF THE GIFTED EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN SINGAPORE

Read the full paper here...

Source: www.aare.edu.au/96pap/kohwl96409.txt -


A TEACHER'S PERSPECTIVE OF THE GIFTED EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN SINGAPORE

Ms Koh Wee Lih and Dr. Sitsofe E. Anku

ABSTRACT

Through the provision of an enriched curriculum, the Gifted Education
Programme(GEP) in Singapore seeks to meet the needs of pupils who are
intellectually gifted. Pupils are selected at the end of Primary 3
based on their language, numerical, and general abilities. Having been
involved with these pupils for about a year, thorough observation is
identified as one of the several characteristics that these pupils
possess. Some insights into the gifted pupils and the GEP structure in
Singapore are shared in this paper.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

ERP List P4 2008

Extended Reading Programme Reading List for Primary 4, 2008

Better Brown Stories by Allan Ahlberg
Frindle by Andrew Clements有男
Spotting the Leopard by Anna Myers
Step by Wicked Step by Anne Fine
Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome
Keeper of the Doves by Betsy Byars
The Pinballs by Betsy Byars
The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Everywhere by Bruce Brooks
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata有女
The Van Gogh Cafe by Cynthia Rylant
The hundred and one Dalmatians by Dodie Smith 男
A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith
The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
A Valley Grows Up by Edward Osmond
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
It's Like This, Cat (Trophy Newbery) by Emily Cheney Neville
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett有女男
Old Yeller (Perennial Classics) by Fred Gipson有男
A Year with Butch and Spike by Gail Gauthier
The Electric Kid by Garry Kilworth
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Princess and the Goblin by George Macdonald有
The Golden Bird by Hans Stolp
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster有女
Is Underground by Joan Aiken
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
Heidi by Johanna Spyri 有女男
First Came the Owl by Judith Benet Richardson
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume有男
Macaroon by Julia Cunningham
Poor Badger by K.M. Peyton
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread by Kate Dicamillo
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 男
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame有女
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
See You Around, Sam! by Lois Lowry
The Sea Egg by L.M. Boston
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
The Door in the Air by Margaret Mahy
The Eyes of the Amaryllis by Natalie Babbitt
A Handful of Thieves by Nina Bawden
Granny the Pag by Nina Bawden
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster有男
Beyond the Ridge by Paul Goble
Daring to Be Abigail by Rachel Vail
Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl有男
The BFG by Roald Dahl有男
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien有男女
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
The Mouse And His Child by Russell Hoban
Pride of the Peacock by Stephanie S. Tolan
Sophie and the Sidewalk Man by Stephanie S. Tolan
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Coope
Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy
Help!: I'm Trapped in My Gym Teacher's Body by Todd Strasser
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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