Dictionary Detective Day
for Literacy and Numeracy Week, September 2007
You’d have thought us an unusual bunch on Friday. All were dressed up for ‘Dictionary Detective Day’. We had Marion Blazé wearing braille, Annette the Amazing Angel, Deb in a Dress (!), Lyn the Lyrebird, Leeanne the Lab Tech, Lea the Ladybird, Dripping Di the Diver, Jackie in her JimJams, Sophie the Sensational Sensei, Toni the Terrible Tiger, Marvellous Maria the Mexican, Helen the un-healthy Horse, Phill the Paperman and Suntanned Sue in her Summer clothes!!!
Our visiting students got into the act, too. Michael was a Monster, Monique a Maid, Abbey an Artist, Alex the AFL coach, Jaryd the Juggler, Misha the Mother (complete with real baby!), Nicole who dressed rather Nicely, George sporting hair Gel and Lily the Lily. All children quickly hopped into looking up as many interesting words on as many alternative format dictionaries as they could, playing word games and generally having an alphabetical ball! We had prizes for the best costume, the longest and shortest word, the best helper and teacher, and the word which was voted by everyone as the most interesting on the day was ‘cattawampus’ – so look that up in your Funk & Wagnel!
If you’d like ideas for activities for developing dictionary skills in interesting and fun ways, contact Marion – we’ve generated a few and they proved very popular.
Thank you to Eastern Metropolitan Region for granting us funding which provided some Large Print and CD ROM Dictionaries (these will now live at SVRC and can now be trialled by students). Also thankyou to Franklin International and their agent, Vision Australia for providing us with three Franklin Language Master Talking Dictionaries for use on this day. One Franklin Language Master Talking Dictionary is now to be housed at SVRC for students and teachers to try out – thanks Franklin!
Also, a special thank you to all our production staff who made word cards in several formats, passports and certificates, all at very short notice and with lots of other stuff going on, and even found time to dress up and help on the day – Thank you!!
Below are some pictures of the day…
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If you would like more information about the Camps and Activities program, please contact Deb Lewis.