This week we have been reading The Princess and the Pea.
We have had a lot of fun with this Fairy Tale.
We decided we wanted to discover if our own Mums are real princesses. We had lots of fun doing this!
First we came up with a secret plan! We had to find a way to test if our very own mum is a real princess!
We came up with a sneaky idea - we would slip a pea under our Mum's mattress and then ask her how she slept the next morning. First we needed to find out how she usually slept.
Next we put our plan into action! We took home our own pea seed. We had to slip them under out Mum's mattress while she wasn't looking! It was so exciting to discover that so many of the Mums in our class really are princesses - we even have one Mum who is a real Queen because Lily found her crown in her drawers!
When we came to school today we did a survey to find out how many princess Mums we have!
We recorded our account of this special project - check out our movies here.
Ava very kindly brought along a fantastic wall hanging she has of the Princess and the Pea - we used this as inspiration for our own art work this week.
We cut fabric into strips and made our own Princess and the Pea beds with lots of mattresses on them.
Next we made a princess to lie on the bed and we added a pea under the mattresses. We even made our princess a crown and shoes.
A huge thanks to the Mums in our class for joining in the fun with this activity. It has been so fantastic to see so many beautiful children so excited by this learning project.
Tomorrow we are tasting lots of different types of peas and writing about what we think of them! I wonder what reaction the children will have!!!
We are also making crowns and jewellery for our Mums - we have a special photo of all of our Mums to do this with, I can't wait to see how special these look.
Today it was very exciting as several groups wrote the script for their movies. I was very impressed with the language the children used and also with the way they were able to write in a way that suited a movie. I scribed the scripts while the children dictated their ideas.
We discovered we needed some props. Today some children started to make props.
We also discovered we needed some extra costume pieces. The children had a great idea to email the parents from our class to see if anyone could help.
We are looking for a mouse, hippo and shadow master costume. We also wondered if anyone has any plants we could use for a jungle.
We also practiced how we need to move and how we need to speak slowly and clearly when we are doing our movies.
We had a lot of fun.
This clip is a sneak peek at one of the movies we are making.
This movie starts Briannah, Ava, Miles and Israa and it is directed by Bryn
We got together with the other people in our groups and we began talking about things like voices, costumes, plot and character descriptions. We made some pictures of what we imagine our characters will look like and identified some key characteristics.
Bryn was busy directing his group of actors- Israa, Briannah, Miles and Ava as they were having a rehearsal of their movie.
I loved the feedback that Bryn provided to his team.
Riley's group had a great idea. Part of their movie is set in the Cashmere hills so Riley was keen to take his group to Victoria Park to film so of their movie. When Riley suggested this we were all very excited but we also realised it posed some problems too.
Riley shared the problems with Mrs Simmons and with our class.
Then we did some problem solving together.
The children suggested lots of ideas
Mrs Pelham could take the children in the car - but what would happen to the rest of the class? - they could have a babysitter was one suggestion
how would we get to Cashmere hills? the children thought we could use google maps to find the way
we could use green screen filming and add a background of the Cashmere Hills
we could use English Park hills to look like the Cashmere Hills
we could ask Riley's Mum or Dad to take us - but we would have to ask Mrs Warren first and the parents of the other children too
The children then went on an adventure to English Park. The discovered the hills there were pretty good and they think they could probably use those hills to do the filming.
Our next step is to start writing scripts for the movies that are not yet written and then to work on our costumes. We are feeling very excited!
I am particularly pleased with the way the children are embracing this inquiry learning. They are driving the direction of this learning and it is so exciting!
Today these children shared their butterfly life cycles with our class.
I was so impressed with the effort they made and that they could each explain the life cycle so well....and they each found a great way to present their information.
Ava has posted about Owen the Owl on her kids blog- pop over and have a look!
Ava brought a fantastic book to school today too. She read it so well to our class.
I especially loved it as it was a perfect example of SMARTS in action, it showed kindness and caring and it was about owls....thanks Ava.
Have you discovered the kids blog tab at the top of our blog? You can write your own blog entry.
Miles, Finn and Ava have had a go already, they have done a great job.
Also, on the tab that is called SMARTS and Current topic there are some challenges for keen learners....have a go and see if you can do some great discovering.
I hope you have all had a great weekend, I can't wait to hear all about it at school tomorrow.
Have you and your family discovered the Kids Blog tab at the top of our blog?
Ava and Miles have already done some blogging, it is a great way for you to share your exciting news with our class.
If you haven't looked yet, go and check it out! There are some great photos and some lovely stories from Ava and Miles....let me know what you discover!
