In the first week of September our school took part in some activities to mark National Literacy and Numeracy week in Australian schools. The festivities began on Monday with a games afternoon outside. We played all kinds of games that honed our English and maths skills – Scrabble and Boggle were favorites of the senior students.
Then we took part in the coin toss activity. We threw 20 cent pieces at a target from distances of 1m, 1.5m and 2m, and tallied the results. It was much harder than we thought it would be to get the coin to stop on the target – many of them hit the bullseye but then rolled away!
The results of the nation-wide activity are now in – you can see them all here. It seems many schools had similar results to ours!
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September 22nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Hello Mrs C
Congratulations for participating in the Maths and English challenge, I hope you did well! You should be proud of yourselves, and don’t worry, you tried your best.
Keep working hard!
I like the Target idea, and I agree that the coin lazily plops somewhere else which really frustrates you when you hit your target. I should try that myself and check out what happens with me. Cross Fingers!
Does this Literacy and Numeracy Week happen every year?
Nadine
From Mrs C: Hi Nadine, you sure are a prolific commenter on my kids’ blogs. I like the language you use and the positive tone of all your messages – well done.
We have been taking part in Lit and Num Week for several years now, although this is the first year we’ve done the national activity coin toss (maybe it wasn’t done before this year – I don’t know). We always have a joint reading session, where the whole school goes outside with their books and read in the playground. This year we went to a local park and met up with another local school there. Lots of fun.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
HI there, it seems like you had lots of fun. We too joined Literacy and Numeracy week by participating in a “what are you reading now” survey and creating a school reading blog – read420.edublogs.org. It is going a little slowly, but i’m hoping that students will be reinvigorated after the holidays. Your site is always a great inspiration. It’s wonderful to see what you are doing. Keep it up 5/6C
From Mrs C: Thank you for the positive feedback. We’d love to visit your blog but that name comes up as unused – could you please send us the correct one?
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September 26th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Hello Mrs C
Thank you for your answer, I am glad to hear that you like my comments, and your student’s blogs are really splendid as well and so they deserve comments as good as mine.
That must be magnificent and fun to be reading in a park, it is also really tranquilizing because of Mother Nature’s lovely sounds which comfort you as you read.
Great choice you had by choosing a park! Well, I wish you lots of luck in the future! Are you going to participate in the comp next year as well?
Nadine
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