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Beehive Industries in Perth
The terrific team of workers at are packing all the HAR resources into our new, bright, red boxes this week!
IT Team
Analysing the stats on the Honey Ant Readers’ webpage with our terrific team of IT boffins! Thanks to Timothy Butler for managing it all!
Nana Dig
Digging for honey ants west of Alice Springs, NT, with traditional land owners, Jennifer Inkamala and Dulcie Sharpe.
HAR at AILA
More wonderful, long-suffering friends weighing in to help thread red string through the new Honey Ant Readers 1 to 10 card bags for remote schools. Thank you!
HAR Invited to Speak at AILA World Congress 2014
The Honey Ant Readers were invited to deliver a workshop entitled ‘Applying linguistic and SLA theory to teaching in remote multilingual settings – Honey Ant Readers’ at the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) World Congress held in Brisbane’s Convention Centre from 10 – 15th August. Timothy Butler representing HARs.
Print Run Busyness
Marg and printing manager, Colin, having a close look at the ‘HAR red’ on the proofs. We are very fussy about the exact red on our borders! The printers show us our new HAR box! Bright, bold and VERY exciting!
Teacher Jackie Putting Translated Central Arrernte Book to Good Use!
One of our terrific Central Arrernte editors, teacher Jackie Silverton, teaches reading in first language, using the Honey Ant Readers book that she edited, as her text. On the white board behind her are the words from the book, broken down to make reading simpler. Congratulations on great teaching, Jackie!
HAR Translator and Elder Benedict Stevens
Elder Benedict Stevens translated the first Central Arrernte Honey Ant Readers and is very proud of the updated editions, which he looks forward to seeing in schools and homes. Also working on the Central Arrernte books were Jackie Silverton, Margaret Heffernan, Alison Furber, Shirley Turner and Joyce Palmer. Our first 18 books in 6 languages…