The Twits once again provided the basis of our school work but by using them (a book everyone was interested in) we managed to cover English, Te Reo, Math, Science and Art. I downloaded a fantastic teachers resource from the official Roald Dahl website www.roalddahl.com and used it as a spring board for the kids to bounce there own ideas from. First off we described the Twits (ugly, maggoty, dirty, smelly, tricky....) then Jacob described our 'sausage shaped, ginger and white, cute, furry Guniea Pigs' Tui described our 'Tear drop shaped, velvety black and shiny Rat...that has teeth with triangle points' and Pearl described our
' lazy, blob shaped, stretchy, furry cat.'
The Tui checked out the Roald Dahl site while Jacob and Pearl made "worm spagetti" using coloured and shread paper and LOADS of PVA while I made the fingerpaint....3 cups boiling water 1 c cornflour, food colouring....to much hot water for kids to make with me. It was just like playcentre! Kids happily 'squelching, squishing, squashing' the fingerpaint and describing how it felt "gooey, gross, warm, squidgey, soft ' and what the sounds it made (it took Jacob all of 2 seconds to suggest it sounded like a fart....lol)
We used the Pink worm Fingerpaint to contribute to the days Te reo and math ( what colour in Maori is the finger paint? How many people in Maori are at the table? How people are not?....etc) the kids asked loads of their own questions too and came up with some fantastic describing words and had HEAPS OF FUN!
' lazy, blob shaped, stretchy, furry cat.'
The Tui checked out the Roald Dahl site while Jacob and Pearl made "worm spagetti" using coloured and shread paper and LOADS of PVA while I made the fingerpaint....3 cups boiling water 1 c cornflour, food colouring....to much hot water for kids to make with me. It was just like playcentre! Kids happily 'squelching, squishing, squashing' the fingerpaint and describing how it felt "gooey, gross, warm, squidgey, soft ' and what the sounds it made (it took Jacob all of 2 seconds to suggest it sounded like a fart....lol)
We used the Pink worm Fingerpaint to contribute to the days Te reo and math ( what colour in Maori is the finger paint? How many people in Maori are at the table? How people are not?....etc) the kids asked loads of their own questions too and came up with some fantastic describing words and had HEAPS OF FUN!
1 comment:
we *love* the twits too, especially the spaghetti... and i also love the shrinks/walking stick tricks.... too funny.
have you read *fantastic mr fox*??
that's another family favourite over here xx
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