Day: 26 November 2015

The Three Bears … and a Few of their Friends

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We did a directed drawing lesson on ‘bears’ this week.  The next day the students did a much larger version of this bear’s portrait.  The lines were then traced over with China markers.  Students had used these markers to outline their Remembrance Day poppy art.  Today students had the opportunity of working with oil pastels.  They were given guidelines on colour choices available for the different sections.  The background needed to be one of the varieties (shades or tints) of either green or blue. They were also instructed in the ‘smudge-iness’ of working with oil pastels and were supposed to work from the inside to the outside in order to not rub the colours into each other.

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I think the students should be very proud of their hard work.  Many said that their hands were sore afterwards but they were troupers and I think that they did a great job.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

This week we began our fairy tale unit with the story, ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’.  We read the traditional version and a few ‘fractured’ or ‘twisted’ versions. One of these was ‘Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs’, and another was ‘You and Me’.  The students debated on whether Goldilocks was ‘naughty or nice’.  On the ‘naughty’ side they decided that she: didn’t listen to her mother to stay out of the woods, and therefore got lost there; she broke into the Bears’ house; ‘stole’ their food (porridge); broke Baby Bear’s chair; and then ‘trespassed’ in their beds.  On the ‘nice’ side they decided that she was a good girl who just made some wrong choices and that she didn’t ‘intend’ to do anything illegal or harmful.  It was a good group discussion and was meant to show the students that there are usually two – and sometimes more – sides to any issue.

Students then had fun creating WANTED posters about Goldilocks.

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They especially enjoyed deciding how much of a reward should be set for capturing this notorious criminal 🙂