Wilfrid Gordon Mcdonald Partridge

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Success Criteria: Participation in class activities and completion of poster detailing factual information relating to Koalas. Learning Intention: To learn about Australia and Australian icons through the journey of Hush and Grandma Poss.

Give each group of four to five students a copy of the book. Appoint a reader and ask the group members to listen for any sentence patterns they hear. Discuss the discoveries (possibly rhyming words, etc.) before drawing attention to the sentence structure repeated for each character: ‘He liked Mrs Jordon who played the organ’.As a younger child, my mother worked in a long-term care facility. Her shift was such that I would ride to work with her and then catch the bus from the facility to my school (yes, this was the seventies. . .we did these kinds of things). Help students to remember and learn about memoires and the passage of time as sequencing skills are reinforces through a timeline. Divide the class into two teams and mark a starting line on the floor with masking tape. Have each team line up behind the starting live, and place the animal container between them. Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students’ own experiences (ACELT1582) https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=118187507239641970897.000476ef9a764a66831ac&z=4

And that’s the thing about Heidi, or Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge. They treat the elderly like they would treat anyone. They treat them like people, like equals. Not feeling sorry for them, not wondering if this is the last time you’ll see them. The rest of us are coloured by what we think we know. “Poor old thing”, we think, and we act accordingly. Any visitors at a nursing home are welcome, but I wonder if kids are especially loved because they are so unaffected. Give groups of four to five a copy of the text and ask them to look through the book, paying close attention to the illustrations by Julie Vivas. Ask the group to describe the illustrations. For example: Finish by asking each child to write a sentence for their character responding to the question, ‘What’s a memory?’

Week 1

Thanks to Christa Stepien for preparing this Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge unit study. Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Unit Study Lessons Success Criteria: Successful completion of set work and presentation of favourite part of the book through artwork. Discuss with your child what happens to you as you grow older. Talk about the changes from baby to child to adult to elderly. Enlist the aid of parents in collecting one penny for each year of the student’s life; gather a set for each student. Such a special story that showcases the beauty of relationships between the old and the young. Wilfrid is a child that lives next door to an old people’s home and has a genuine interest in the residents and values their passions in life. Above all is his bond with Nancy, which flourishes so affectionately, untouched by her illness. What is so beautiful about this story is that, upon discovering her memory loss, Wilfrid becomes the key to Nancy’s rediscovery. In giving small tokens of himself, he helps her regain aspects of her past, all of which were believed to be lost.