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In Term Four 2008, a group of Early Stage 1 students are collaborating on some fables using school-based themes. Firstly, we will discuss our ideas in Circle Time with Mr McLean, our teacher-librarian. Secondly, we will draw our favourite scenes and characters. Mr McLean will select some pictures and scan them, then put one on each wiki page. Thirdly, we will jointly-construct and edit the fables right onto this wiki. Finally, when we know how the stories turn out, we will draw some new pictures for you and scan them to decorate the wiki page.

Before we knew about wikis, we used to write our recounts, procedures and narratives on butcher's paper, or put them in a "news book". Weaving a wiki is fun, and we can share our work with the whole world! Please scroll down to see the rest of our template.

We hope that you will enjoy following our progress! Please send us your comments; we'd love to read them. The teacher-librarian at Jasper Road PS was so inspired by our 2007 efforts that she started a wiki at her own school - and her Stage 1 students wrote some fables too!

Working together using this wiki

Think of this wiki as a shared online whiteboard. Your entire group can share information using this wiki, making your research accessible to everyone. Play around with this wiki: Notice how you can add comments to a page, see what people have changed, and edit all the text.

Outcomes - English K-6 NSW syllabus - Early Stage 1

V1   enjoys creating a range of spoken and written texts

V4   shows confidence in using language in a variety of contexts

TES1.1   Communicates with peers and known adults in informal situations and structured activities dealing briefly with familiar topics. (Moving towards... TS1.1 Communicates with an increasing range of people for a variety of purposes on both familiar and introduced topics in spontaneous and structured classroom activities.)

RES1.5   Demonstrates developing reading skills to short, predictable written texts on familiar topics (Moving towards... RS1.5 Reads a wider range of texts on less familiar topics with increasing independence and understanding, making connections between own knowledge and experience and information in texts.)

WES1.9   Engages in writing texts with the intention of conveying an idea or message. (Moving towards... WS1.9 Plans, reviews and produces a small range of simple literary and factual texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers.)

WES1.12   Produces most lower-case and upper-case letters and uses computer technology to begin to construct texts. (Moving towards... WS1.12 Produces texts using letters of consistent size and slope in NSW Foundation Style and using computer technology.)

Group members

• Jason
• Aquila
• Angelina
• Robert
• Thalan
• Jessica
• Holly
• Jackson
• Tom
• Caitlyn
• Zachary
• Emily
• Mr McLean.

Special guest artists

• Tyron
• Ethan
• Dylan
• Asleigh
• Other students from SCLB.

Meetings 

Our draft fables

The clever rhinoceros (Draft)

Annotations

Annotations about 2007 ES1's progress. (2008's students are undertaking a similar unit this term.)

Annotations about 2008 ES1's progress, including weekly brainstorms.

What other classes are saying about our wiki pages

Penrith Public School Library Wiki © 2007 Penrith Public School, High Street, Penrith 2750, New South Wales, Australia. Telephone 02 4721 2158. Fax 02 4721 3466. No text or graphics may be reproduced without permission. All text and graphics © the original authors/artists of Penrith Public School. HTML by Ian McLean and Early Stage 1 students of 2008.

Library wiki first uploaded November 2007; this page updated November 2008.

URL: http://penrithpslibrary.pbwiki.com/

Main home page first uploaded September 2004; revised 2008.

URL: http://www.penrith-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/index.html

Email the Web Composer at: ian.mclean7@det.nsw.edu.au