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Subiaco Primary Year 4s : Tanya & Jennie

by Tanya Rodin,

DATE 21st August

Warm Up 

Creating Imaginary Underwater Creatures. 


Each student was spread out around the room with their journal and three coloured textas. 

When the music began everyone needed to move around the room like their bookweek character, when I stopped they all had 10 seconds to draw a squiggle on the blank pages. 


Music/character dance break. 

Then when music stopped they had 10 seconds to go to someone else's journal and turn the squiggle into a body shape. 

Then dance. And then with a dance between; 

  • Add eyes.

  • Add limbs or fins.

  • Add texture

  • Add a special feature

  • Then they got to go back to their journals and give the creature a name. 


Then for the last dance break they had to move like the creature that was just created. 


Jennie Rocking her bookweek costume made by the class :) 

 

Main Activity (one photo)

Finishing off our woven tennis creatures.


I used the warm up to help them open their imaginary lens to the potential of their tennis creatures. 

They spent most of today's lesson finishing them off, and adding a little diagram to their journals with further description of its special features and why they chose the fabrics they did. 


On the side Jennie, two of the more experienced student sewers and myself worked out a plan for our big doorstop creation lesson next week. 

 

Reflection with the students 

Students were reflecting in their journals after they finished their tennis racket creature, thinking about fabrics chosen and their link to wanting those colours. 

 

After the session:

 

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

Successes:

  • The overalls were worn today for bookweek and Jennie looked amazing. And lots of the kids were so excited to show their creation to their parents. 

  • The weaving, they all really gave it a go, and got creative with their additions. 


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

Excited to use sewing machines next week! 


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

Sewing the Doorstops; 

  • Needing to have stations planned out. 


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

Sand, pillow fluff, precut jeans, precut face and hair additions, sewing machines. 


How can you share learning outcomes/stories of transformation with the wider school community (e.g. Connect newsletter, staff meeting, school newsletter, school social media platforms)

Excited to share it on market day. 



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