Time to introduce William Dampier, the English explorer, pirate, and naturalist, who was the first Englishman to chart part of the Australian coastline and the first European to study its landscape, flora, and fauna scientifically.  

We started the lesson by showing examples from his field book. The warm-up was whittling our drawing stick and making ink from rocks/leaves.

As they are whittling, I read the dream time story of how the birds go there colours.

Field Book Pages - Birds

Looking at feathers, habitats

Work Stations: Geli prints/Rubbings/Drawing

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

We had half the books which we have the year 6’s and the year 5’s had books Nathan had printed. They both worked out fine and they enjoyed whittling the sticks, but we didn't see any birds today!

Next week we can look at plants… with more experimenting making inks, rubbings and prints

They can talk about the habits and how they have used them very well already!

I need to get some better printing ink for the geli plates. I only have 2 plates, but I think it will be fine.. And we need some paper.

I need to think of warm up activity that we play. Maybe we give them all a plant to go find