Our cluster is running a loose cross cluster activity around the 2008 Olympics.Classes are going to share their experiences and activities through a series of blogs that we have embedded on our cluster homepage. You can view them here.
It is a simple and easy way for students and teachers to connect and collaborate throughout our cluster, and we hope it will be very successful.
To add to this I have created an online activity called 'Olympic Island' which will run over this term. It is built on an idea/class activity that I used to do with my year 3 kids back when I had a classroom, and they used to love it!
It involves creating your very own island and adapting it for a specific purpose, in this case the Olympic Games.
I plan to throw through in some curly questions and challenges over the term to stimulate some higher order thinking and create discussion, and it should be a lot of fun.
There are only 50 places available in the activity, and I'd like to invite any of my readers, or people you think might be interested to join up. It's free, and if it works really well, I might look at running more themes in the future.
Check it out at http://noodle.21classes.com
