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Funny message from a year 3 teacher in the NT
A year 3 teacher sent us this wonderful message! “I just wanted to share a funny HAR story with you. It was a writing session in the 3/4 class once again, and the students were asked to write sentences using ‘Drowned him, Drowned him’ as a stimulus. The writing session was getting under way when one…
5th National SNAICC Conference
This week the Honey Ant Readers have been in balmy Cairns for the 5th National Conference run by the Secretariat for National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care entitled, ‘For our Children: Living and Learning Together’. Although a big conference of over 1,200 delegates, this has been one of the best organised and most dynamic conferences we…
Our contribution to ‘Let’s Read’ Tip Sheets 2013
The importance of children being read to from an early age is emphasised by ‘Let’s Read’ in their latest tip sheets: http://www.letsread.com.au/Parents/Reading-tips-and-tools/Reading-tip-sheets. Let’s Read was developed by the Royal Children’s Hospitals Centre for Community Child Health, Melbourne and works to engage families, the community and professionals in promoting reading to children from birth. Our illustrator, Wendy Paterson…
Anyone for a big, juicy (paper) honey ant?
This little preschooler has been using props from the Honey Ant Readers series for role play and drama exercises. The children especially love pretending to be little honey ants crawling in their tunnels running away from Nana!
We’re passionate about student success in reading!
At the Honey Ant Readers, we’re all about student success in learning to read. That’s why we love examples such as this one in Kintore. This talented student proudly shows his part-complete activity sheet after reading HARs and winning at the card game. Here is another photo of children enjoying reading, and listening to, the HARs in their…
Fantastic feedback from an excited and proud Mum:
We had 2 lovely emails from an excited Mum who bought our writing books for her son, which we’d love to share: “I can’t tell you how grateful we are for your Honey Ant products. Without a word of a lie my 7 year old went from illegible writing to almost perfect writing with your…
Our new monthly newsletter launched today!
We are so enormously excited to have launched our new monthly newsletter this morning! Check it out on http://createsend.com/t/t-2D7BB5D5C604861F or if you would like to receive an issue every month, please let us know: admin@honeyant.com.au and we’ll add you to our list!
A great week delivering training at Kintore remote school!
Margaret had a fantastic time at Walungurru (Kintore) last week with the welcoming, enthusiastic staff and their keen little students. Inspiring to see the HUGE progress being made by students in this very remote corner of our vast country.
HARs video selected for screening at 5th SNAICC National Conference
We are delighted that our video, made by Joe Relic, of the Jennifer, Dulcie Sharpe and children digging for honey ants was selected for screening at the 5th National Conference of the Secretariat for National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Childcare (SNAICC) in Cairns, June 3rd-7th. Jennifer Inkamala, Marjorie Williams and Margaret will also be…