Library and Information Week: Fake News Challenge

We decided to do a Fake News Challenge as part of 2021 Library and Information Week.

Each lunchtime students could collect the slip for the day and then at the end of the day we announced winners where they could collect lolly pack. 

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Some of the answers were well thought out and then others .. well they were not!

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We had a good giggle at the answers and had great conversations with kids at lunchtime on how to look up information online, triangulate answers and frame a good answer.

Library and Information Week: Scrambled Poetry

I'm always on the lookout for activities for Write Club to do that are a bit different and hands on.

So I copied some magnetic poetry words onto coloured paper and make some offline kits for students to play with during "Library and Information Week".

It did take me an evening of cutting out the words for the packs, but we made 6 different coloured kits for lunchtime activities.

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It was a great activity, and the kids took photo's of what they had created so that they could go away and do some more writing from the inspiration.

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If you wanted to do it online, here are some links:

• Magnetic Poetry online
  http://magneticpoetryplayonline.com/original/
• Magnetic poetry online via Google Docs
  https://shakeuplearning.com/magneticpoetry/
• Build your own magnetic poetry activity using Google Draw
  https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2018/10/12/build-your-own-online-magnetic-poetry-kit-with-google-drawing