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2011 Literacy and Numeracy week activities. Go to this site and vote on which shape you would like to be. The survey results will be published soon. http://www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au/ =Core Activity =

** Telling the Story of Australia’s Classrooms **
What does OUR classroom look like? How are we the same? How are we different? To contribute to the national data collection, and for entry into the prize draw, we need to

Step 1 - Collect
Collect some facts about our classroom. Before we get started, take a look at the Teaching Ideas below for our age group to help plan and prepare for the activity! We can collect our facts on any or all of the following
 * The number of people present in your classroom (students as well as teachers/teacher aides/adults)
 * The size of your classroom, measured by the perimeter and/or area, using informal and/or formal units
 * The age of your classroom
 * The view from your classroom and any special feature(s) of it

Step 2 - Record
** Record ** a summary of your data using the Data Collection form
 * ([|PDF 351KB] |

[|Upper Primary Teaching Ideas | National Literacy and Numeracy Week 2011] http://www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au/reach-stars/junior-secondary-teaching-ideas **__ Literacy and Numeracy Week, 2011 __**

[] Core Activity What does YOUR classroom look like? How are we the same? How are we different? Collect some facts about your classroom.
 * 1) As part of the focus for Literacy and Numeracy week, we are registered for the Reach for the Stars activity.
 * Room to Learn, Telling the Story of Australia’s Classrooms **

[|Early Years Teaching Ideas] Early Years Teaching Ideas ( [|PDF 281KB] | [|RTF 81KB] ) [|Lower Primary Teaching Ideas] Lower Primary Teaching Ideas ( [|PDF 281KB] | [|RTF 57KB] ) [|Upper Primary Teaching Ideas] Upper Primary Teaching Ideas ( [|PDF 283KB] | [|RTF 64KB] ) [|Junior Secondary Teaching Ideas] Junior Secondary Teaching Ideas ( [|PDF 276KB] | [|RTF 56KB] ) (Further teaching ideas including follow-up activities using the National Data are available on the [|more activities] page).

• The official Challenge will take place on 30 to 31 August 2011. • Start practicing from Monday, 22 August. • Top students will go into the selection process for Ambassadors of the World Education Games 2012.
 * 1) ** Commonwealth Bank Mathletics Challenge **


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= Literacy Links  = This y  ear, for Upper Primary, // Reach for the Stars // has chosen the book //Eric// by Shaun Tan. You can read the story and look at the pictures in this link from the Guardian newspaper. []