Tag Archives: cerebral palsy
cross country: MMXII
Autumn signals the start of the cross country season in Australia. Once again Mac’s school event was held at our home track. A couple of Mac’s classmates convinced Mac and Tim (Mac’s aide) to run with them in the 10 … Continue reading
rampage
There was an in-class assessment task recently. Mac & his classmates have been learning about shelters and investigating the many different shelters, buildings and constructions. The assessment involved building a shelter during class time from materials they collected at … Continue reading
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rallying the troops…
It’s time to make the NDIS Real in 2012 Monday, April 30 will see the biggest rally of people with disabilities Australia has ever seen join forces to ensure the National Disability Insurance Scheme becomes a reality. From the Every Australian … Continue reading
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no limits!
This is the picture adorning the Easter gift bag Mac received from our good friends (and is now framed & hanging on the wall). Before we arrived the kids had busied themselves creating an impressive portrait of Mac right down … Continue reading
eggs on legs
The Easter Hat Parade takes on a different form at our school. For K-2 they work on your stereotypical “Easter bonnets” for the Hat Parade. The big kids (Grades 5-6) do Egg Diorama’s called “Egg-o-ramas” (usually with a specific … Continue reading
fridge magnet friday
This is perhaps my favourite quote to do with inclusion – so simple, it just goes to the heart of the matter.
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school photos
image found on http://weheartit.com/from/m-a-l-e-d-i-c-t-i-o-n.tumblr.com Tough times for a child who can sometimes take on the form of a pretzel. Depending on the time/place/moment/noise/temperature/season… Mac can be tough to get a decent shot of. After an epic fail in Year … Continue reading
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the ‘season proper’
Football season is here. In Australia you are spoilt for choice with the amount of sport and number of ‘footy codes’ to choose from. In our family it’s Australian rules football and the AFL (Australian Football League). Mac has consistently … Continue reading
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kenken: no-brainer for differentiated instruction?
You’ve probably seen these puzzles appearing in your newspapers over the last few years. Looking a bit like a weird Sudoku puzzle they are worth a second glance. KenKen puzzles have built in differentiation, potential for collaborative learning and are … Continue reading
Filed under Accessing the Curriculum
who owns those kids over there?
Just want to tell you… they’re awesome! I could see the corner of a piece of paper poking through the zipper on Mac’s school bag. There’s not normally stuff in that front pocket… I reached in to see what … Continue reading
timing is everything…
Are we there yet? How much longer? When can we go? How much more? Sound familiar… ? Time Timer (visual timer for visual people!) from Time Timer on Vimeo. Another parent shared the Time Timer® with me the other … Continue reading
chucking a real sickie…
Mac ‘chucked a sickie’ last week, thing is he really was sick. In fact, he was probably sicker the day before and I would normally have given him the day off… only we had appointments with both Vision Support … Continue reading
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all for one, and one for all…
There’s been some trouble at school. It seems Stage Two (Grades 3 & 4) have been testing the boundaries somewhat (in class and on excursions) and it has led to two special assemblies in the last week where the Principal … Continue reading
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