This week, the children continued to find out more about what an image can be. We visited the Library to find any books that might connect to "images, shapes or poetry". A diverse selection was chosen by the students, which they have enjoyed reading during Daily 5. We explored our lines of inquiry by discussing various images each day and shared our responses through talking, writing and drawing. We dug deeper into how we can respond to images and used a range of thinking routines to help us structure our thoughts, such as "I see, I think, I wonder", zooming in on one element of an image and imagining what might have happened before and after what is depicted in a painting. The children continue to build their knowledge of types of images and the purpose behind them. On Thursday, we visited the National Gallery and were engaged in exploring and discussing several South-East Asian paintings. The children made insightful comments and enthusiastically participated in role-play, using their observational and thinking skills. Some of the comments included: "There are fourteen people looking at him and there is food on the floor." Yuuki "It looks like they are learning." Ray "They are studying outside." Shoichi "I see a fly on his shoulder, maybe they are poor or in a dirty place." "One looks like he is crying- maybe it is a sad story." Maria "He is so interested, he doesn't notice the fly." Hugh "Maybe he just listened to something bad in the story which made him remember something sad in his own life." Fedor "I see the label telling me information. How old is this painting?" Charlie Back in class, we connected our experience to writing and used Raden Saleh's, huge "Boschbrand (Forest Fire) painting to inspire a story we wrote together. In Maths, the children investigated the properties of 2-D shapes, using many different resources. They are using properties such as number of sides, number or corners/vertices, straight or curved sides and length of sides to identify, name and describe shapes. After reading the book, "Grandfather Tang's Story", by Ann Tompert, they explored tangrams. This developed their problem-solving skills and spatial awareness as they moved and rotated the triangles, parallelogram and square to make different pictures. Some children then planned a story using tangram characters that they will present using stop-motion animation.
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