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Exploring Nature: A Journey from Dirk Hartog to Our School with Claire Davenhall and Walliston Primary Year 5/6

by Claire,

Session 4

DATE 21.5.25

Warm Up

We played a card game - back-to-back drawing, where you sit with your back to a person so you can't see the card, and the other person has to describe the card they have been given carefully. The aim was to be collaborative, giving and receiving feedback, so when we think about recording in our fieldbooks, we need to consider the information we are recording and that it can be read by another person. DRAW/WRITE/DESCRIBE. They swapped roles.. They were much better than I thought they would be... The best ones yet!

Pa Main Activity (one photo)

Lots of different ways to communicate ideas, we will explore in this session

Draw with ink using their drawing sticks
Making their own ink
Gel plate printing
Rubbings of textures using pencil and crayons
Flower/plant pressings in the book heavy books (we can sit on them for a week).

Students can attach things into their field book using string, glue, tape, hole punches

Reflection with the students (one photo)

Cut out a native plant and add it to the collage.

After the session:

Planning with the Teacher

(refer back to your original Term Plan document, discuss successes, explore challenges and make changes.)

The books! Hope they arrive, maybe we can create a reptile next week and think about habitats they need to live in.

Working with students

(what is emerging, what is engaging them/not, what’s making them curious.)

The class don't have their books. They seem to love being outside and experimentsing, some

Ideas moving forward

(ideas for next session, future lessons, discussed with teacher, do you need the teacher to do anything before you return.)

Reptiles- if you were a reptile, what would you be and where would you make a home.
Should we make a reptile in air-dry clay? (I have some in my studio we can use)
Do you have the boxes for the book nook?

Resources

(do you need anything, who will source it?)

Just waiting for the rest of the field books to arrive...