Beginning Our Metaproject

The World

Since our last post K1AWh have begun to talk about 'The World'. 
The question posed to the children was: What does the word 'world' in United World College mean?

Here were some ideas...

"We live there"

"The world has every colour"

"The whole world has every country"

"The world is traffic jams and traffic lights"

"The world has water from the river"

"Earth"

"It is big and round"

"There are people walking and shopping"

Over the past week we have begun to explore some of these ideas, mainly focusing on the idea of natural features in the world as this is an area of interest for the class. For example, we investigated an unusual photo of a rock formation and used different shades of paint to try and recreate the effect on the rocks. We have also looked at pictures and maps of the world on the light table and some children have chosen to trace these on plain paper. The children enjoyed making patterns with small rocks and stones over shapes of waves and mountains.

It has been wonderful to start receiving responses to the family project that was handed out last week 'What is your world?'. The children have proudly shared theirs with the class. Thank you for your help with this!

For the next part of this project, can you please send in (via email or a hard copy) a photograph of your family?

Things to remember:

• Books have now started coming home;
• Wordless books out Wednesday, back the following Tuesday at the latest.
• Library books out Thursday, back the following Wednesday at the latest.
• Song and rhyme books out Friday, back the following Monday.