Super Heroes

As part of our overall theme of art this term we looked at super heroes. We found out that, while childre range in size from four to 5 heads tall and adults tend to be six heads tall, super heroes tend to be drawn as eight heads tall, making them look like very tall, not-quite-human people.
https://classes.soe.ucsc.edu/cmps025/Spring11/Draw-Comics-The-Marvel-Way.pdf
We looked at the Lego super heroes and worked out they are three heads tall.
We created our own super heroes, gave them back stories, then sent them on adventures.

My Two Blankets

We had read My Two Blankets by Irena Kobald and Freya Blackwood. This book is about a girl having to leave her country because of war and her experiences in her new country. The words of this new country are a waterfall of sound and she is very unhappy. She wraps herself in a blanket of what she knows – words, ideas, things of importance. As she integrates in to her new country, she creates a second blanket for herself. We created our own blankets of what is important to us. we wrote about them and shared our work with Ruma Waru.

For whatever reason, the country the child arrived in did not seem to have the support available that New Zealand does.

www.redcross.org.nz/what-we-do/in-new-zealand/refugee-services/
http://englishlanguage.org.nz/
http://www.alpn.org.nz/

Random bits from August

Ms Finikin has found some decorated writing paper at sparklebox.com. She had left it on her desk for another group but we older kids had found it. It was an exciting find for us. Meenu did some research on leprechauns while Jennifer wrote three linked stories based on what she found.

Meanwhile, the younger kids had done some guided writing on the table top. They read it back. They were working on writing what they new, copying, letter formation and 1-1 matching as they read it back. The group composed the story together.

Prehistoric Animals

Ms Finikin’s box of Lego had prehistoric animals on the side. There were dinosaurs and pteranodons. We worked in pairs to make the creatures. Sometimes we struggled to cooperate but mostly it was fun. We researched our animals and Ms Finikin taught us how to know if it is a dinosaur or not. We learnt that pteranodons are not dinosaurs.