Session 7 - Somerly Primary School Year 3 - Health and Technologies

Drawing Creatures - Working with a partner

1. Choose a partner who you wouldn’t normally work with

2. Sit back to back with your partner

3. Explain how to draw your creature using only descriptive words like shapes and lines but not any nouns.

Eg: draw an oval in the middle of the page, draw to straight lines from the bottom of the oval. You cannot say draw straight lines like legs

1. Take it in turns to give each other an instruction or you can each complete a drawing and then swap places

The Plan

1. Find a pair who you think are very different to you. 

2. In your group of four, get your creatures and discuss how you could do a play about your characters and how they use their creative habits.

3. How many characters will be in your video?

4. How could you introduce your characters. Do they have names?

5. How can you explain your creative habit superpower/strength to the other character?

6. Where would you like to film

7. Draw it like a comic, in four panels - introducing each other, problem, creative habit, solution

Extending creative habits

1. What creative habit did you use most today? 

2. Did you use more than one and if so, how?

3. Create your creative habit flower and add a zone of regulation leaf.

Successes

• It worked well when we were practicing outside because we finished really quickly ... Oli

• Use of reflection flowers and how they are applying colours to show how much of each creative habit they felt they used

• Group work was positive particularly as they had to choose someone they didn't usually work with and then partner with another pair to create a mixed group of boys and girls

• Jack B bounced back really quickly which is unusual for him as he would normally cry. Displaying more resilience.

• Use of props outside

Challenges

• Working outside for one group was difficult and they didn't achieve anything. This did enable us to talk about Creative habit use during reflection.

• Extended focus and attention is still difficult at times

• The main activity was much less open ended with the inclusion of the story arc

This is good though as I can go back to this process when we do narratives at the end of the year … Teacher

Ongoing reflection throughout the sessions is engaging students, particularly using actions and creative habits as an ‘attention grab’ in conjunction with clapping rhythms. They still require further understanding of the meaning for each habit as they tend to read from the poster. Getting students to share examples of how they think they are using each habit is helping those who are still struggling and enabling students to extend their thinking. A number of them are able to incorporate multiple habit use in activities.  

I was inquisitive because I was questioning how the group could draw their characters and what they would do and I was collaborative working with my group… student

I mixed the cookies together to show how much I did if each of the creative habits - student

They are looking forward to using the Ipads to film however we are curious to see how they are able to apply the parameters of using one take and not moving the camera.