Our Portraits of Famous Aboriginal Australians

Applying what they have been learning about portraiture students chose a significant Australian to do a portrait of an an accompanying bibliography for their book publications. Here are some of them. Can you guess who they are?

Feedback on They Found a Cave given out...plus new display up - August 28th

All students who handed in their film reports received substantial feedback form (pictured below) and a future focus goal. This feedback is available in their portfolio for perusal.  There is a display of the work completed up in the classroom.

Students have been advised about the importance of:

*a thoroughly proof-reading the top copy
*the use of compound sentences instead of a series of simple sentences
*referring to specific examples in the text to support their ideas.

Honey I Shrunk the Kids - August 27th 2013

This latest maths unit focuses on taking accurate measurement, percentages and decimals, and rounding decimals to the nearest decimal place. Students each had to create a figure 25% of themselves dressed in their favourite clothes. Here are the first four in. Ample time has been given in class, 6 lesson blocks. This is the only homework task for this week. Students have also been furthering their knowledge of proportion when sketching people and applying it to this maths task. We presented our work in a whole school assembly.

Faces and Proportion

Over the last few weeks we have been looking at the human face in terms of fractions and getting the features of the face in the correct proportion. Students worked hard on this challenge. Here are a few snapshots (cropped).

Dusting in Love by Max Dann. Working on characters

We have just finished reading the above pictured humorous class novel by Max Dann and have been working hard on adjectives in readiness to do some in depth character studies. Students will be working in pairs or groups of three, depending on whether they have a major or minor character in the novel. Many students already have composed lists of words relating to the characters. We will be focusing on Thesaurus, Dusting, Gilbert, Grotty, Max, Phoebe, Millicent, and Mr Lord. Today students were exposed to about forty adjectives and had to draft up a sentence for each one, trying to use compound sentences. They then chose what they believed to be their best fifteen sentences to publish. Here are a few examples which were completed with no teacher corrections:

Students are now working in groups of three or four  on the following activities. The Plasticine figurines will be used later in the animations unit which will focus on two of Max Dann's books, Dusting in Love and Going Bananas. These books offer rich opportunities for students to study character development. There is a display up the front of the room for students to refer to.

Each group must produce:

An in depth character study, making reference to specific actions, statements and deeds in the novel to support their statements about the character.

A large wanted picture of their character stating what they are wanted for.

A cartoon strip or story board showing one scene or aspect of the story line

A Plasticine figurine, no taller than 10 cm. A design must be handed in before the group receives the materials.