Snippets

I can't believe how busy I've been in our first term of school (for us Southern Hemisphere dwellers). I think of things to blog about then don't have time and forget them. Before I forget here's one amusement we had recently:

Anika babysat for friends of ours and after the younger ones were organised for bed she sat reading "The Penguin History of Europe". Mr Ten-Years-Old was reading also then looked up at what Anika was reading and commented, "I didn't think there were any penguins in Europe." I have never thought about a title that way.

Then one day we came across an outline of what Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are expected of students in Queensland's schools. Anika found this: By the end of year 9 the student, "Considers and applies ICT to enhance interpersonal relationships in order to develop social and cultural understandings." If that just sounded like teacher gobbledygook to you then we're on the same page. Not to worry though. The example given said it all: for example, "uses 'emoticons' to enhance a message by indicating emotion'"

Honestly!! :D :) :D ;)