Miss Woolsey's Class FS2

This week the children were presented with some music and sounds from a clip called 'The Lucky Dip'. The children listened to the clip twice and they were asked to think of what noises they could hear and what they thought it could be. The children were also asked to think of the setting and what it might look like. They then drew some fantastic pictures..... "I heard bubbles with a fish." "I heard some lightening."  "There is a fish jumping up to the shark to eat him because I heard some glug, glug, glug bubbles coming up." "I drew fireworks because I heard banging. I drew seagulls because I heard seagull noises. I drew bubbles because I heard popping noises. I drew a fairy because I thought that was making the noises."  "I drew the seaside because I heard the sea. I drew fireworks because I heard them."  "It's a forest. I heard loads of birdies and I heard fairies looking at an alien. The ...

A picture can speak a thousand words.... The children were presented with this picture taken from the story called 'The Tin Forest'. As a class the children were asked to think about what they could see based on the man's feelings. They were then challenged to think of some questions to ask the man if we were able to speak to him. To help the children to achieve this, we looked at a question matrix to build on our skills of question openers. So what did the children say?  The children came up with lots of ideas around what the man might be doing and what they could see: "He is in a house with a light on and it's dark outside" - I.B  "There is snow outside on the floor" - R.F  "The man thinks he wants to go outside but he can't" - M.C  "He has to stay inside looking at the pipes" - L.J  "I think it's too cold to go outside" - K.P  "I think he's in a strangers house" - W.R  ...