Emily Pea x

I did the test and i turned out to be dough-pea!!!!!

So im apparently:

"Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. In fact you're probably only allowed plastic cutlery where you live. But as long as there are sparkly things to look at, you're happy, and that's what counts in life!!!"

xx Emily Pea xx

which poddington pea are you most like?

Now you can find out which poddington pea (the originals not our group!) you are with this quiz (even if it is a little odd in places and probably not very suitable for children or the very easily squeamish!!)...

Now I have you intrigued, why don't you try it?? Apparently I'm most like PC Pod!!!

http://www.quizilla.com/users/phil73/quizzes/WHICH%20PODDINGTON%20PEA%20ARE%20YOU%3F/

Have fun!!

Chiquita xx

New Pea continued!

Well done Caz, Claire and Laura C! Your critical literacy skills are outstanding!!! Lesson for everyone else-you should always question the information you are given, even when it has come from what you think is a reliable source!

Love Christina Pea xx

PS None of the Poddington Peas are pregnant, or have ever been during the making of this blog

New Pea addition!!!!!!!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! We are very happy to announce that we have a very new member of the poddington peas!! (although they are still inside one of our pes's pea pod!) What a lovely "unexpected pea suprise!". Well done Pregnant Pea!!!
Love the rest of the Pea crew xxxx

What is critical literacy and why is it important?

Colin Harrison (2004) p152 suggests that the answer is "that language practices are becoming evermore important in determining, reproducing and sustaining power relations that dominate and control our society, and since many of those language practices operate in ways that are implicit rather than explicit, it becomes a matter of great importance to be able to locate, identify and critique those practices."

He also suggests that critical literacy attempts to challenge what schooling is attempting to do, in a sense that people become confident in articulating and manipulating their use of language and text to enable literacy to influence people.This is termed socially active literacy but is not the sole purpose of critical literacy.

There is a strong indication that a lot of real life issues that teachers will deal with, involve a deep moral undertone, for example dealing with terrorism as many children that come into school may have preconceived ideas and we have a responsibility to remain neutral. As teachers we merely provide them with the tools to unpick what they already know.

Reading paths activity - Channel 4 website

The website that we went to was http://www.channel4.com/. This was a very visual page with various moving pictures and text and it took a while to take in everything on the page!
The navigation has many possibilities and there were endless links which

we could of chosen.

To start with we clicked on a large picture of the big brother eye. This is the icon that represents the channel 4 reality tv show Big Brother, a programme that we were all interested in, so for us it was the one that stood out the most.

The icon then took us to the big brother page which was mainly pictures with little written text. Out of the images available we clicked on the gallery link and were able to scroll through various pictures taken in the house of housemates performing tasks.Each image from the gallery had its own small witty caption at the bottom.

After scrolling though the gallery we clicked on a small box to the right of the pictures, which took us to a page where you could click on different images to watch video clips. We clicked on this because the thought of watching a video clip interested us and we wanted to find out more.

We clicked on one of the film clips which then opened a seperate window. The film clip took a few minutes to load and showed us televison adverts before we actually got to see any big brother footage. The film clip added a great multi modal element to the website.

This page could have many teaching implications as there are many images and ways of presenting information. It teaches children about multimodal texts in a format that they can understand and relate to. However, as always when using the internet there are many issues with having to censor sites, and they should be thoroughly checked before children are allowed to explore them.

We know that you all sing along to our theme tune...so we thought we would give you the words so you can impress all your friends with your incredible poddington pea knowledge!!! You know its cool!!

Theme tune lyrics

Down at the bottom of the garden,Among the birds and the bees,A little lot of little people,They call the Poddington Peas!

Theres Creep-Pea, BlackEyed-Pea and Dump-Pea Keep it a secret now please.Theres Zip-Pea, Hap-Pea and theres Sweet-Pea And all the Poddington Peas!
The Poddington Peas!

Enjoy, love Emily the Pea! xxx

Poddington Peas Christina and Emily

This is poddington peas Christina and Emily being watered after a very hard night!

Peas need watering to grow properly, don't forget!

Christina Poddington Pea x

The show has begun!!

For any of you who do not remember or never watched The Poddington Peas, heres a little example of what you've been missing!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE476Yl0GDk&eurl=

Don't you think it serves as a nice example of a multimodal text as well!?

Chiquita xx

Our first blog

Welcome to our blog spot!!
You can look forward to seeing some interesting tasks and links on our page, and a little bit about us!

Lots of love,
Chiquita, Emily, Christina and Tanya :) x