Rap wrap up
From 25 March 2008 (but please feel free to keep posting your Rap Point 3 responses under the Rap Point 3 tab).
- What have you enjoyed about participating in this book rap?
- What skills in reading texts and using technology have you developed?
Use the Rap Wrap Up planning sheet to help you respond to the Rap Wrap Up points. Post your class response to the rap once the teacher has approved the final message.
Go to the Leave a reply box at the bottom of this page to post on the rap blog. You will need to log in, post the response and wait for moderation. Your class group may also wish to respond to comments from other schools in their blog entry.
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Hi clever Wilfrid Rappers!
What a great job you’ve all done creating fascinating new characters for Rap Point 3.
With the interruption to school because of the Easter holidays, many of you may not yet have posted your Rap Point 3 responses. Don’t worry - there is no strict deadline so just post your message to the Wilfrid blog when you find the time. We’d love to hear all about your new characters.
We are also looking forward to reading your Rap Wrap Up comments, on this page, over the next few weeks. It’s very important to reflect on our learning. We’ve all come so far in just a short time. Just think back to what you knew about blogging, wikis, book raps, picture books and memories just a few weeks ago.
Happy Rap Wrapping everyone!
Mr McLean and Mrs Scheffers
Rap Coordinators
March 25th, 2008 at 10:30 am
This is the first time 1J has particpated in a book rap, we liked the following things:
Different students from different places chose different things and had different opinions. We liked reading other rap responses.
We learned typing. We learned what a memory is. We learned about the computer and the Internet. We enjoyed finding out about other schools and their classes.
Our favourite character was Wilfrid Gordon, because he had four names, he was our age, he liked skateboarding and he liked hanging on monkey bars.
Our favourite activity was making up a new character.
Half of the class would like to do it again, and half the class would not like to do it again.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:01 am
1H learned:
* what a memory is.
* something we remembered doing as a class.
* what other schools have done.
* remembered another class made donuts and used a baby donut as a memory jogger.
Our favourite character is Mrs Jordan who played the organ. Because she plays the organ, She plays for everyone in the old people’s home, she said a memory was something warm, and she wears a scarf and gloves to keep herself warm.
Our favourite rap activity was learning about memories, and remembering something special that we had done together as a class and thinking of the item that Wilfrid would show to Miss Nancy.
Our class would like to do another rap because it was fun, it sounds nice, you get to learn new things and we get to look at other comments from other kids around Australia.
Nice to have met you all, good bye from 1H.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
2Q’s response:
We learned it is good to help people find their memory if they have lost it. You help them by asking them what they like doing and what they have done in the past.
We also learned that people lose their memories.
We liked telling other students around Australia about Nowra and our school, we learned that we know about places in Australia that other children dont. We learned about other students and where they live.
We learned that books are special.
Our favourite character is Miss Nancy because she was nice to Wilfrid Gordon, she lost her memory, she likes and respects other people, and we learned all about her when she was growing up.
Our favourite rap activity was making up new characters for the old people’s home.
We would be interested in another book rap because it is fun, you learn more about things, you get to learn about another book, you get to know how to do a book rap, it makes us happy, you learn more about life and because we get to talk through the Internet to so many other students about the same book.
Thank you for joining us with the rap blog…. 2Q.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
2A learned that book rapping is fun. We learned about rhyming. We learned what book rap is and means. We didn’t know about book rapping and now we know all about it. We learned about other schools and students. We learned about the book. We learned Mem Fox likes rhyming.
Our favourite character is Mr Tippett who likes playing cricket. We like Mr Tippett the best because he plays cricket. He uses a broom for a bat! He has a nice stripey dressing gown. He has a big fat tummy and finds it difficult to do his trousers up!
Our favourite activity was making up new characters for the old people’s home. It was fun thinking of new things, we were laughing at the funny names and we made up really silly ones.
We would be interested in doing another book rap because it is fun, we can look and learn about a new book, learn about other stuff like characters from other books.
Good bye, farewell, we’ll miss you, THE END!
2A
March 25th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
WHAT DID WE ENJOY?
Our class has enjoyed reading other people’s posts and thoughts about the story. We love reading all of the ideas each week and writing our own to add to the rap.
We have had fun learning about rhyming when we made up more characters for the story. We were very proud of ourselves when we were able to use the format of Mem Fox’s writing style to make our writing sound like hers.
We laughed and laughed at other characters children made up.
Our favourite activity was making up the characters to go with Mr Tippett.
WHAT DID WE LEARN?
We had fun learning about the meaning behind the story, using the pictures and the words to find out more information about the characters.
This was our first time at sending and reading posts and found out there are many ways of seeing things and that people have different ideas.
We would like to share in more blogs.
Thanks
2/3K
March 25th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Hi there for the last time,
1/2W really enjoyed being part of this book rap. This is the first rap that we’ve been part of and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge is one of our favourite books!
Listening to the story was interesting and we all thought that we picked up new and different things from the book.
We had fun coming up with memories and really enjoyed making up characters for rap point 3. Now we are even going to make a class book of new characters. We liked reading all the funny names for new characters from other rappers. It was great to put the rap points up on our SMARTboard to read other responses.
We learnt about making up new characters and writing descriptions and we really got into the characters in the story and discovered more about them from the illustrations as well as the writing.
Thanks for having us - it was heaps of fun!
March 25th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
It’s hard to believe the book rap has wrapped. What a good time we had with it. A big thank you to Mrs Scheffers who was a big help to us when doing our book rap.
What we enjoyed about the book rap:
• It was fun creating a new character.
• Voting for our favourite character.
• Reading the messages on the Wilfrid blog.
• Using and reading the wiki.
• Reading about other schools.
• Finding there was another 1H with the same number of children as us.
What new skills we learnt:
• We learnt memories are very, very important.
• How to use a wiki.
• How to be book detectives.
• Learnt about other schools, where they are and their different ideas.
• We learnt to cooperate and work as a team.
• Made up our own minds about things and voted.
A big thank you to all the other rappers. We have enjoyed reading your rap responses. We hope there will be another book rap next year.
Goodbye from the Happy 1H Rappers at CCPS
March 26th, 2008 at 10:50 am
What we enjoyed about the book rap:
• Making up a new character for the story
• Drawing our favourite character from the story
• Reading the story many times – finding the little details
• Working on the computers
• Finding our own messages on the Wilfrid Blog and reading responses from the other schools
• Reading the messages on the Wiki pages
• Creating a wall display in our classroom with all of our Rap Points displayed
• Making up a ‘new memory’ idea for our new character
• Watching the DVD and listening to Mem Fox read her own story
What new skills we have learnt:
• Learning all about ‘how’ a Book Rap works and the ‘lingo’
• Thinking skills
• Using the Internet and logging into the Wilfrid Blog
• Using our imagination
• How to make our own choices when taking a vote
• Learning a lot about the author – Mem Fox – and her real experiences
• How to find the international schools on a world globe
• Learning more about other schools
We really hope that we have the chance to RAP with you all again soon!
From the 1/2LuckyRappers@CCPS
March 26th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Hi there rappers!
What we enjoyed about the book rap:
• reading the messages from other schools and our own school on the blog
• making up our own person, who could live in the old persons home
• going on the computer to write up our ideas
• because for some of us it was the first time
• looking carefully at the book to answer questions
• voting for which ideas we should choose to use
• reading the introductions to find out about other schools
• discussing the book in more detail
• choosing our favourite character in the book & why
• answering the rap point questions
• working as a team
• sitting down and putting on our imaginary rap caps
• printing out the pages and displaying it on our wall
• using the Wiki to record our favourite memory and descriptions of characters
• doing the rap wrap-up
• using the interactive whiteboard and the magic pen for brainstorming
• looking at the rap map and finding out about other schools
• being rap reporters after reading emails.
What new skills we learnt:
* information about memories and how to describe them
* information about Mem Fox and Julie Vivas
* information about where Mem Fox got the characters names from and who they were
* the rap rules and lingo
* that when we read a book we should focus carefully so we can learn more things about it
* how a book rap works
* about the picture book
* things about other schools and how big they are, where they are, etc
* more about authors and illustrators
* how to use our rap caps
* about how to cooperate, listen and work as a team
* new computer terms like “blog” and “wiki” and how to use them
* about the ideas that other classes had
* about how the illustrations help us know more about the story
* “that doing a book rap is actually about fun!” (Aalapi)
* that we use our brain to learn more!!!
* that we can use our imagination to get more ideas
* how to write a description
* it reminded us about our last book rap with ‘Possum Magic’
Goodbye and we hope to rap with you again next year.
from the 2M Mature Rappers@CCPS
March 26th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
G’day fellow rappers!
Here we are on the last leg of our Wilfrid Rap Activities. It seem short but surely have been exciting and enjoyable for all of us in our school.
What did we enjoy about the book rap:
• Thinking more carefully about the book
• Making up a new character called Mr Rolly
• Reading and adding to the Wikis
• Thinking about the object to remind us of our special memory
• Working in the computer lab to read on the Wilfrid blog
• Using the smart board to work on our rap points activities
• Reading the other schools’ work/responses on the rap points
• Going to the library and working with Mrs Scheffers
• Working through the whole Rap Program.
What new skills we learnt:
• Learnt more about the book: story, illustrations and characters
• Working as a team
• Making own decisions/choices
• How to use the Wilfrid blog at home with our parents
• Learning new words and new ideas from other rappers through the messages
• Logging on to the Wilfrid blog
• Learned more about other schools through the introductions
• Learned how to think like an author
• Sharing some great ideas with other classes within our school.
It is not goodbye but an “Au revoir!” to everyone. Thanks to Mrs Scheffers, Mr McLean and Mrs Keane for organising this Rap, last year’s and the future ones. We hope more schools will catch up with the Rap again next year.
March 26th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Meet Mrs Curl!
Students at Caddies Creek PS have sent artwork of their Rap Point 3 new resident. Meet her under the Home tab. Scroll down until you see her.
If any other schools would like to post pics send Mr McLean an email at: ian.mclean@education.nsw.gov.au
The Coordinators
March 27th, 2008 at 11:07 am
1/2L learnt:
* rhyming
* about new schools/classes
* about other students opinions
* about a new book
* about book rapping.
Our favourite book character is Wilfrid Gordon, because he helped Miss Nancy to find her memory by finding items to help her remember. He is also the same age as us.
Our favourite activity was making up new characters.
We would do another rap because we enjoyed it, we liked reading other schools’ comments and writing our own.
1/2L Nowra Public School.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
2B learned how to book rap. How some people live when they’re old. A memory is something special. What other people are doing in other schools.
Our favourite book character was Wilfrid Gordon. We liked him best because he helped Miss Nancy get her memory back. He was very funny. He was the main character. He was always asking questions.
2B liked many things, such as: reading what other classes say and thinking of our own memories. We liked especially responding to other classes comments, which happened to be about us!
2B would like to do another rap because some people like to be rappers! We are really interested in reading books. We enjoy taking new meaning from books. We learn more about books. Doing book raps can make our brains expand with the new knowledge.
We hope to rap with you all again.
Bye from 2B
March 27th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Howdy rappers,
All good things come to an end….
What we enjoyed about the book rap:
• Reading the messages on the Wilfrid blog
• Creating our character in rap point 3
• Working with a partner to open the Wilfrid blog and reading the messages together.
• Looking at the rap point 1 Wilfird Wiki’s about memories and describing our favourite characters on rap point 2 Wilfrid Wiki.
• Researching Mem Fox and finding out about where the characters came from, like Wilfrid was named after her father.
• Watching the Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge DVD that was read by Mem Fox.
• Reporting back to the class about our favourite blog responses.
• Using the interactive white board to read and answer the rap points.
• Thinking about our rap point answers and voting for our most popular answers.
• Working in groups and writing our own memories.
• Having our introduction printed in our school newsletter.
• Working with Mrs Scheffers on the book rap.
What new skills we learnt:
• Book rap lingo and how a book rap works.
• Reading other schools ideas and thoughts about the book rap.
• That some schools are very different around Sydney and Australia.
• How to go on the Wilfrid Blog at home.
• When we share our ideas, we learnt that we couldn’t always have our ideas used in our class response.
• About the book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge. Characters, author, illustrator.
• Being patient when listening to other people’s ideas.
• How to use a Wiki
• How to write blog messages.
• How to work as a team and make decisions together.
• How to use descriptive words to make new characters.
• How to draw our own character by following our description.
• How to think for ourselves.
We hope to rap with you next year (if there is one).
From the 2aawesome rappers @ccps
March 27th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
We enjoyed:
• Learning about other schools
• Using the computer
• How important memories are.
We learned:
• How to analyse the book
• How to blog
• To call out the words to Amelia and tell her how to spell them.
We hope to book rap again next year.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
We are the Carlton South rappers and we have enjoyed learning how to go on a blog and how to save work and bookmarking favourites.The skills we have learnt in reading texts and using technology have been how to log on to a blog and talk without sending emails.
We’ve learnt how to describe a memory and learnt new words. We have enjoyed making a new character, answering questions and reading other schools’ introductions.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Hello nowrarappers,
We read your last message and it is fantastic. In the book rap we’ll read your responses.
See you next time.
The troutraps
March 31st, 2008 at 9:36 am
Hi fellow Wilfrid Rappers
I’ve been so interested to read your Rap Wrap Up responses. We have all enjoyed and learnt so much together, by sharing our ideas and feelings about this beautiful picture book! Not only have we learnt more about the characters and memories, we have improved our computer skills. For most of us, including the teachers, this has been our first time blogging and using wikis.
If your class or group hasn’t yet posted your Rap Wrap Up message, please don’t worry. You have until the end of this term (Friday 11th April) to post any rap messages.
Thank you so much for all your wonderful work with the book rap. I look forward to reading the remaining Rap Wrap Up responses that are still to be posted on the blog!
Happy rapping everyone!
Mrs Scheffers
Rap Co-ordinator
Teacher Librarian @ Caddies Creek PS
March 31st, 2008 at 11:02 am
Hi
We have enjoyed listening to our teacher read from the blog. We have read other Mem Fox stories, it is interesting because they are all different. We have also enjoyed using the internet and finding the Mem Fox website to find out more information as we go along. We have liked looking at the books online.
We have learnt a lot of things about Mem Fox and her writing - where she gets her stories from - and now we can make up characters using people’s names we know. We have had fun blogging for our first time and most of us would like to do it again.
Till next time
See you later Alligator
2H
March 31st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Hello Everyone,
This rap has gone by so quickly. 1E, 1/2C and 2H have all enjoyed participating in this rap and really have looked forward to reading Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge each week.
All classes thought time was too short each week to do the activities and look at other school responses. This was because we had such a busy term with other things happening and we only have one hour each week in library to borrow and participate in the book rap.
Everyone really enjoyed creating new characters and the fun things Wilfrid found for the new memories. We also loved reading what other schools had done. We will definitely look forward to another book rap.
See you next time from 1E, 1/2C and 2H at ECPS
March 31st, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Hello Fellow Rappers
2W have really enjoyed taking part in this book rap, it is the first one we have done and most of the children would like to do another book rap in the future.
Some of the skills and other things we learnt were:
• about blogs and book raps,
• what a memory is and how you get a memory back,
• new ways to communicate with other schools
• about the book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
• interesting things about names
• that everyone is important
• how to use Google maps
• how to find the blogs for each rap points
• about other schools.
The children enjoyed:
• choosing their favourite characters from the book
• making up their own new characters
• using the internet and reading the blogs and wiki
• reading the book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
• all the characters in the book
• painting pictures of the book characters and showing them at assembly.
Our favourite character was Mr Tippett because he was crazy about cricket and he looked like he would be fun to be with.
Thanks to all the other schools who took part in the rap, we hope to see you again when we do another book rap.
Bye for now
2wmnpsrappers @ Miranda North P S
April 1st, 2008 at 10:23 am
Hi Rappers!
We enjoyed working together and brainstorming our ideas for blogging and we loved reading other bloggers ideas. It was new for us to know about rapping, blogging and wikis.
Our favourite characters are Miss Nancy, Mr Tippett and Mr Hosking.
Our favourite activities during the rap were -
* drawing new characters for the old people’s home
* brainstorming
* reading the story
* sharing ideas with other schools.
Most of us really enjoyed the rap and would like to rap again. Thank you Mr McLean and Mrs Scheffers for helping us.
Bye from,
Glenhavenrappers
April 1st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Hi everyone,
Year 1 loved sharing the story and the experiences of Wilfrid. It was a great reminder that we don’t have to be big to make a difference in someone’s life.
We enjoyed the memory basket that we made - Mrs Gough put some of her special things in there too.
We learned that we needed to talk to our grandparents to find out what they like to do for fun, because some of us didn’t know!
Thanks for the fun Wilfrid. It’s been great blogging and rapping!
Until next time -
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Hi everyone,
This is Room 22 from Winthrop Primary School. We had great fun reading the book and doing the rap.
Our favourite character was Wilfrid. We learnt that Wilfrid was a kind boy.
Doing the rap was fun because you get to use technology. We had fun because we got to meet who else was doing the rap. Our class learnt how to do a rap. We had fun learning, thank you.
Our class would like to do another rap.
Room 22, Winthrop PS
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Meet Mr Gilchrist!
Students at Caddies Creek PS have sent more artwork - another special Rap Point 3 resident. Meet him in the Gallery under the Home tab. Scroll down until you see him.
If any other schools would like to post pics send me an email attachment at: ian.mclean@education.nsw.gov.au or you can even post your group’s efforts through the school courier and I’ll scan and upload them for you. (Individual student artwork requires written permission from students and their parents, but group work is fine.)
Mr McLean,
Penrith PS
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
Hi everyone
We have really enjoyed participating in the book rap with you all. We are sad that the rap has finished but we are looking forward to doing another one next year.
We enjoyed:
* listening to Mem Fox reading the story on tape
* reading other schools’comments
* inventing a new resident using our grandparents as examples
* putting the object into the Wlifrid Wiki.
We learnt:
* what a book rap is
* how to use a blog and a wiki
* how to send and receive messages
* how to change colour and size of text in the wiki
* that memories are the story of our lives.
We are very lucky that our school is next door to an old people’s home called Drummond House. Emily, one of the students in our class, suggested that we should visit the old people and read them our favourite picture books. They loved hearing our stories and they wanted us to visit again soon. Many of them were in their late 80s. We made them a bookmark for a present.
Thankyou Mr McLean and Mrs Scheffers for organising this book rap.
Goodbye from the Manly Village Bluesearappers.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 am
1W learned about lots of other characters in other books also, which helped us write great narratives in our class. We learned to communicate with other classes by reading their rap responses and replying to them. We love reading 2B’s responses and we hope they like ours.
1W’s favourite character is Miss Nancy, because she was funny, she remembered dancing, going to the beach and finding shells, kicking the ball with Wilfrid and all the special times they spent together.
Our favourite activity was making up new characters. We enjoyed rhyming and thinking of words that went with our character.
We hope 2B’s brains don’t get too big with all their new knowledge that they can’t get out of their classroom door and visit the infants again! Maybe 2B can pass their excess knowledge onto 1W.
1W nowrarappers
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:51 am
This is a note to 1W at Nowra Public School.
2B would like to say thank you for your responses, 1W, we loved reading them a lot. Don’t worry about our heads, we are having our door widened! So see you at infants this week, we’ll be coming through the double gates…
2B nowrarappers
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
G’day rappers,
This is one group of Penrith PS rappers wrapping up.
We enjoyed thinking of things to write in our rap responses. We enjoyed making Mrs Harmony Day and writing about her. We liked using the computer for writing and reading our messages on the rap blog, and also reading the rap responses from other schools. We liked being members of this special book rap group and doing activities we don’t normally have a chance to do. It was enjoyable seeing Caddies Creek PS’s artwork in the Gallery. We liked sharing our memories and adding them to the wiki page.
Patrick thought that we worked much harder on Wilfrid than when he was in the Possum Magic book rap last year.
Here’s what we learnt about reading:
* The background of stories really gets into your mind during a book rap.
* You must always read very carefully.
* Reading is easy!
* Reading can get “funner and funner”. Sometimes reading can be fun and even funny!
* It’s lots of fun looking for clues when you’re reading.
Here’s what some of us learnt about technology:
* “Technology is useful, and fun.” (Lots of us agreed that technology was fun.)
* “I remembered to send the Rap Blog URL to my relatives in an email.”
* “Technology can make you feel scared - a bit - if you don’t know what a blog is, but I’m not scared anymore because I know about wikis and blogs.”
* “I went home to see the Gallery on the Internet.” (Five out of thirteen students have found the Rap Blog’s URL at home and shown their families.)
We enjoyed this book rap and can’t wait till next week when we finish making our artwork for the Gallery. (We have been busy with Book Fair, Chicks ‘R’ Us and Grandparents’ Day this week.)
Best wishes from
penrithpsrappers
April 4th, 2008 at 10:43 am
What we enjoyed about the book rap:
• reading about the other schools and their ideas
• reading the book in more detail and becoming book detectives
• when we chose our favourite character in Rap Point 2
• creating Mrs Curl (especially her shiny red shoes and putting the green glitter on her dress). We also liked seeing her on the blog.
• listening to Mem Fox’s voice on the DVD and on the CD
• working with the other class in the library with Mrs Scheffers
• using the SmartBoard (interactive whiteboard)
• talking about memories, about what they are, how they make us feel and why they are important. We enjoyed sharing our memories as a class.
• reading the blog messages and using a Wiki for the first time.
• making decisions by voting. We had to independently think and make our own decisions.
• putting on our “Book Rap Caps” because they helped us to think.
What new skills we learnt:
• how a Book Rap works
• how to use Wikis and Blogs
• we are better at reaching an agreement
• we are better at expressing our ideas
• listening to other people’s ideas.
We also learnt:
• that memories are special and important
• about other people’s lifestyles and where they go to school. We learnt where different places are and what it may be like to live there
• to share our ideas with other Rappers and we learnt to appreciate other people’s new ideas
• about Mem Fox and we learnt about her father, mother and grandfather and the influence these people had on her characters
• about the author and illustrator
• to appreciate the special people in our lives
• new skills on the internet such as adding to a blog and changing avatars
• the steps necessary to access the blog.
We hope to Rap with you in the future.
2Delightfully Delicious and the K-6Adorable Angelic Rappers from CCPS.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Hello rappers,
This is another group of Penrith PS rappers ready to wrap up.
We enjoyed reading the picture book of Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge. We enjoyed learning about the characters in the story and learning about Mem Fox. We liked going to the wiki page to see all the memories in Wilfrid’s basket; every time we went, there were new objects! We liked reading Rap Responses on the Rap Blog.
Two of us liked tracing Matthew’s outline the best to make our new resident, Patrick St Green. Two of us liked seeing the other groups’ outlines, and the faces they chose for Mrs Day and Grandpa Peter.
Here’s what we learnt about reading:
* “You get to see surprising things in picture books. You can imagine in your brain and sometimes the book’s pictures show you more than the words say.”
* Reading is sometimes easy and sometimes hard. Book raps can make reading easier.
* Sometimes the pictures tell a different story. We found clues about Wilfrid’s chicken in the illustrations.
* Julie Vivas likes to hide things, like Wilfrid playing with Mr Tippett’s dressing gown cord, Miss Nancy’s pink socks and the chicken under the chair.
* We learnt many new hard words, like “forgotten” and “memory”.
* Reading picture books can help you read longer books later on.
* Reading blogs is like reading little stories.
Here’s what some of us learnt about technology:
* “We can send messages to other schools - and around the world - on the rap blog.”
* “Computers sometimes lose their memories.”
* “When we change the wiki page, the message goes all the way to America and back again very fast.”
* “I liked it when we used Google Images to see all the different pens and pencils that Mrs Keane could use as a memory item.”
* “‘Wiki wiki’ is a Hawaiian word that means ‘Quick!’”
* “We searched for things on the Internet with Google.”
Isabelle thought that Caddies Creek Public School did a great job making Mrs Curl’s glittery red shoes. Daniel reckons Caddies Creek students could make 1000 people in one day!
We enjoyed this book rap very much. Next week we have to finish our artwork for the Gallery.
Best wishes from
penrithpsrappers
April 7th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Howdy fellow rappers,
We have enjoyed rapping with you all. We feel that we have learnt a lot by doing this blog. We thought it was great that we can use blogging to communicate with lots of people around the world and that we could share our ideas with everyone.
We now have a better understanding of how memories are lots of different things to different people and how old people sometimes lose their memory. We agree with what slgs1 said, ‘…we don’t have to be big to make a difference in someone’s life.’
We loved making the new character and using rhyming words like Mem Fox. We came up with so many different characters that it was hard for us to decide on just one. We are looking forward to our next book rap.
Hope to blog with you all in the future.
Newtownrappers
April 7th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Hi fellow Wilfrid Rappers
Thank you all so much your wonderful efforts and creative ideas throughout this book rap! I have been so amazed by the clever and interersting responses from schools from all across Australia and Vietnam! It has been so much fun sharing our thoughts and ideas online, using the new technologies of blogs and wikis.
I’m sure students and teachers alike, will always have very special memories of Mem Fox’s and Julie Vivas’ beautiful picture book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and will fondly remember the time we spent book rapping together!
A big “Thank you” to all the teaching staff (classroom teachers, teacher librarians, Support unit teachers and assistants), who took up the challenge of this book rap and who intergtated it into their teaching program!
I look forward to rapping with you all again in the future!
Happy reading everyone!
Mrs Scheffers
Rap Co-ordinator
Teacher Librarian @ Caddies Creek PS
April 8th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Dear Rappers,
2S enjoyed reading the book and posting our responses on the blog. We also loved colouring in the characters and finding adjectives to describe them. Our homework project was to make a memory box of our own. Then we presented it to the class. We saw some funny photos of each other when we were little. It was great fun.
We hope to join in a blog again so we can learn more about books and blogging.
See you later alligators……… maybe in a while crocodile.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
2M at Seven Hills North PS enjoyed doing a book rap for the first time.
We learnt about blogs and wikis, about using email, about the different ideas from other schools and especially about reading a book a few times to really get to know it. Our favourite activity was making up new residents for the old people’s home - we liked thinking up strange names and silly happenings.
Most of us would love to do another book rap but a few of us would prefer not to.
All the best from 2M.
April 10th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Hello book rappers!
The last of my rap groups finished off their elderly resident outlines yesterday - last week was frantic here, with Book Fair and Grandparents’ Day - and I’ve just taken digital photos of their work, which I’ll add to the Gallery tonight.
The whole school community is celebrating their love of reading this afternoon with a reading picnic - a great sight to behold: 400 students, their teachers, students’ parents and toddler siblings, spread out in groups scattered throughout the school playground, enjoying books and nibblies in a picnic atmosphere. These celebrations have become an end-of-term tradition here at Penrith PS over recent years, and they are so effective at bringing a community together with a literacy focus.
Thanks to all our participating schools for making this book rap such a memorable experience. Lots of you were first time rappers and you launched into this with so much enthusiasm.
I presented the rap blog and wiki to a group of our parents on Tuesday night and they were surprised/enthused/fascinated at how we had harnessed the capabilities of Web 2.0 to share such meaningful learning and teaching, especially that their children had been communicating with students all over Australia and even Vietnam. While preparing my talk, I re-read those early introductory messages again this week, and it was a great reminder at how far we’d all come in such a short time! Great work, everyone!
Thanks also to Mrs Scheffers at Caddies Creek PS, Mrs Keane and the team at Ryde State Office (NSW DET) for making sure it all came together.
See you at the next rap!
Regards, Mr McLean
Rap Coordinator,
Penrith PS
April 10th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Hi everyone,
This was the first time that 1/2T participated in the book rap. We learnt so many things like:
how to type
learning about old people
learning what a memory was
learning a little bit about the olden days
learning about other schools and students
how to get onto the blog
creating new characters
learning to send messages
Mem Fox’s writing and Julie Vivas’ illustrations
learning about characters.
How we may have done things differently?
Make it more exciting by putting in more pictures
Being able to access the blog more.
Until the next time,
1-2tnewtownpsrappers
April 10th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Hi everyone
We have had so much fun doing the “Wilfrid” book rap and are already talking about which book might be chosen next time! Some of us did the “Possum Magic” rap last year.
We have enjoyed working with our buddies from mainstream classes and especially the extra work that Mrs Raymond’s class did after we made our wonderful Mr Barden. We can’t believe how popular Mr Barden has become, he is quite a celebrity at Caddies Creek and even got his picture in our school newsletter.
It was great fun deciding who would be our person and even more fun making him. We loved hearing the story over and over again. We enjoyed working on our joint constructions then doing our blog entries. We got excited seeing all the new characters in the Gallery, especially our very own Mr Barden.
See you all next year!
2/6S@CCPS
April 11th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Hello rappers,
SCLB had Circle Time in the library today to talk about what we learned in the Wilfrid book rap.
We enjoyed:
* seeing our Grandpa Peter outline on the rap blog Gallery
* finding the chicken in the pages of Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
* Mr Hosking’s scary stories
* Mr McLean’s scary poem of The Hairy Toe
* Miss Mitchell and her walking stick.
The book rap improved our reading by:
* watching the pictures in Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
* turning the pages
* using the pictures to help us read
* asking my Mum to read to me.
The book rap helped us with technology by:
* helping us learn
* thinking about it
* playing games on the Internet
* seeing all the people in the Gallery.
We had fun with the Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge book rap!
From SCLB
Penrith PS