Requirements needed for our reggio project!
*A good thinking cap (this is very important!)
*A good imagnation (you need this.)
*Lots of ideas! (you'll find this hard if you don't have theese.)
First of all, we were all thinking: WHAT IS CULTURE? After iots of hard thinking, we finally found out that culture is where you live, what you eat, what games and sport you play, what clothes you wear, what you say, and your way of living. It took us a long time to find out all of this. We worked hard, thinking about our enviroment, drawing what is, and what we thought culture was. A word that kept popping up was... HOMELY! We then picked a word and drew what it meant. For example, anegr would mean a bunch of scribbles!
After all that, we worked on culture some more. We choose a THICK QUESTION, wrote it in our books, and did lots of research to answer our question. we eventually found the answers. Back to our homely look. Because it looked more calm,we turned all the desks around to face each other. We couldn't get into them anymore! We took out all our books and put them on the floor in piles of subjects. We then took away 8 desks and 8 chairs for our homely look. Now people can sit where they like! But what of our pencil cases and drinkbottles? We put them in our cubbyholes with our bags. But then where did our books go? We put them in their piles on a grey shelf in the corner of the room. When we wanted our books, we got them handed out to us. We then had the problem of bumps on the desks when we were writing or drawing. Cloths were suppossed to fix it, but they kept slipping!
After lots of thinking, talking, ideas and documentation, someone had the idea of wooden boards to stop the desk bumps. Then, a few children mesured a group of 4 desks. It came to about a metre squared. After Mrs Stewart brought in a piece of wood, we then thought about what patterns we could use. Puzzle piece? Patchwork? A map? We then got into 5 groups depending on the culture we had studied and decided what pattern we wanted for our design. Here are the groups: AFRICA, ASIA, EUROPE, AMERICA, and of course: NEW ZEALAND! Our groups got a few pictures of artwork from that continent so we could get ideas from them. After witing and drawing our ideas on paper, disscussing with our classmates, sharing our ideas, drawing some more, and having more disscussions, we were ready to paint.
Mrs Stewart had brought all 5 boards so we could start when we wanted. But then we had to have paint! Students brought in lots. Some people even brought in some thick paintbrushes. Finally we were ready to paint. We had lots of ideas, big paint sessions, more ideas, more disscussions on what we had done, more ideas, more disscussions, and lots of changes. After MONTHS and MONTHS of hard work, we were FINALLY done!! We glossed once, and then we glossed again for extra shininess! We made videos, and put them on the blog. But now that we're done...
I WONDER WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT??
Term 4, Week 8 Poem
5 years ago
October 18, 2012 at 7:03 PM
I really enjoyed your assembly presentation today children. You displayed many EXPRESS qualities, not the least of which was the EXCELLENCE of your presentation! You really caught and held our interest. Well done.