Worth thinking about......
Hooray for Diffendoofer day!
Before I sign off and leave this term's blogging to Michelle, I have to tell you about this gorgeous book called "Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!" This book was conceived by Dr Seuss who unfortunately died before he completed it.
His idea of writing about celebrating individuality and creative thinking was taken up by children's poet, Jack Prelutsky and illustrator, Lane Smith, who finished what Ted had started.
This story is about an amazing school in which the students are taught amazing things like yelling and smelling, laughing and yelling, "frogs to dance and pigs to put on underpants"...and much more!. Most of all, the teachers teach the kids how to think! The very worried principal, Mr Lowe announces that the students must take a test which is taken by all schools (sounds very much like Naplan!!) "to see who's learning such and such-to see which school's the best"....and if they don't do well, the school will have to close and they would have to go to dreary Flobbertown.
I won't spoil the ending by telling what happens in case you read it!
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