Tuesday- Wednesday Week 4

Last week I asked all the children to bring something along today that made them think DISCOVERY. We had a great collection of items brought along and shared. I think one of the most interesting was Naomi Rose's Great Great Grandfather's box.We discussed firstly our thoughts as to what was in the box.....














Her Great Great Grandfather used to be a teacher....and this was his box (collection) of resources. Inside we found.......samples of seeds, wood, skulls, birds feet, precious stones, liquids and a note book/journal where he had written notes on the things he had collected!!!









His notebook was so interesting and the script just perfect! We discovered he loved and cared nature as everything within the box was natural (aside from the journal and a few tin boxes where items were stored)
Here are some of the items we brought that made us think DISCOVERY



















Why do you think these items made us think DISCOVERY??

For AFFECTIVE at the moment we are writing 'Like a' poems. poems that describe us and our feelings. we are also investigationg personality types. we are using the 4 Keirsey Temprements as a guide (http://keirsey.com) . We are reading to find out whether we are; Artisians, Guardians, Idealists or Rationals. From there we are going to see which famous people in our world we match personalities with. We are really excited about this!!! At the end, and just for fun, we are going to see which house we would be in at Hogwarts and which character we would best match on the story The Wizard of Oz........watch this space for more info (Tracey has left it school at the time of this composition!)


After language we began Talent Development.









Poets hard at work.......

We spent the first half hour on Talent Clubs. The readers/Writers club are doing a huge fact find on Shakespeare and the mathematicians are working on Mathsmate. After clubs we moved on to Exploring talent. What fun we had and what major diversity!! Some chose to continue on with their club work, but others are doing; model making, cartooning, creature creation, animation, science experiements........and more.

The afternoon was spent DISCOVERING all that we could about the day we were born....and the date, not necessarly the year. We had fun discovering which literary giants we share birthdays with and what movies were number 1!! We also enjoyed finding out about moon phases and what the moon was doing when we were born. Just for fun we discovered how to write our names in Viking Runes!!!