Hi everyone! Since MW was closed last Thursday and Friday due to influenza we decided to combine last week’s blog with this week’s. The past two weeks were filled with hands on adventures that turned learning into pure fun! The main focus these past two weeks was dioramas. We defined a diorama as a story that you can look at made with small things you build and put in a box. It is like a little world inside a box.
They started off by planning how they would make their individual dioramas with the guidance of the two worksheets below.
Over the course of the past two weeks, everyone has been working on their dioramas. Creating backgrounds and making the characters and the objects they will use to tell their stories.
They also learned how to tell stories using materials from the natural environment; leaves and sticks! This activity let their creativity shine brighter than ever. Their imaginations took the lead and the results were amazing!
As part of our Christmas show preparations, we made a Christmas craft that will be used to decorate the foyer of the venue. The children practiced their fine motor skills by doing accordion folds on the “Christmas tree branches” and by making stars using origami. There were many steps to follow, and making sure the corners of the origami matched was quite challenging, but they all created beautiful stars! Their Christmas trees are displayed in the hallway close to MW class so please take a look when you pass by.
With the Christmas show drawing closer each day, we are realizing the importance of reflecting and striving to do better than before. The children watched a video of themselves performing their play and then commented on the areas they think they can improve.
~The week ahead~
Next week we will have a mini Christmas show where all classes will be able to watch their peers performing their plays. We will also continue making our dioramas, and If there is still time left before the Christmas show, we will talk about other ways of telling stories as we wrap up LOI3.
Thank you for reading our blog. Have a great weekend!
