Wednesday, May 20, 2009
18th to 20th May
In this last week of our half term , we are having Arts Week.
On Monday we had a visiting theatre group which presented the story of The Odyssey with stunning puppets, clever props and outstanding acting. We also began oor topic based on the Kensuke's Kingdom novel written by Michael Morpurgo. We read the start of the book together and made notes about the characters of the boy's parents and, since then, we have begun writing brief character studies of these people.
We have had another couple of music lessons with the tin whistle, learning the remaining main notes of the scale and their fingerings and then trying to play some more tunes and this afternoon we did an art activity, developing the sketching of figures by using chalks to create the person and then smudging the chalk to help suggest movement.
Yesterday, before we had our usual French, PSHCE and PE sessions in the afternoon, we made a proper start to our RE work on Buddhism. We watched a short video programme and read a booklet about the life of the Buddha and then completed some writing about his life, thought about the "four sights" and talked and wrote about he meaning underlying a story told about the Buddha and one of his followers.
On Monday we had a visiting theatre group which presented the story of The Odyssey with stunning puppets, clever props and outstanding acting. We also began oor topic based on the Kensuke's Kingdom novel written by Michael Morpurgo. We read the start of the book together and made notes about the characters of the boy's parents and, since then, we have begun writing brief character studies of these people.
We have had another couple of music lessons with the tin whistle, learning the remaining main notes of the scale and their fingerings and then trying to play some more tunes and this afternoon we did an art activity, developing the sketching of figures by using chalks to create the person and then smudging the chalk to help suggest movement.
Yesterday, before we had our usual French, PSHCE and PE sessions in the afternoon, we made a proper start to our RE work on Buddhism. We watched a short video programme and read a booklet about the life of the Buddha and then completed some writing about his life, thought about the "four sights" and talked and wrote about he meaning underlying a story told about the Buddha and one of his followers.
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