Writing Workshop: a Bestiary.

Teacher Mª Soledad González has done with her students a fantastic literary activity: a bestiary. Students have invented and described fantastic beings and creatures! 

Lots of comics

When we bought the story starter sets from Lego education we downloaded the simple software for creating comics. The children enjoyed making stories with photos, paintings, lego, playmobile, SCHLEICH,...... They did their own sets, took photos and:

Handmade comics

The travel route of the little prince

Grit Meßerschmidt

The planet of all together and the roses

Look at the "planet of all together" the children created together with the older pupils. There is a balloon inside of the planet of papermache. Can you spot the prince, the rose, the snake,....?

Here are the beautiful roses (drinking straws and crepe paper):

Puppet theatre

One class has made puppets and played the story of the little prince in front of different backgrounds- mountains, football stadium, own town,.... They also have taken a video of the puppet story "The little prince".

"The little prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupery

Our ideas and medias for all who are going to teach the children about the adventures and experiences of the little prince.
Creating own planets- drawing circles- painting with pencils, water coulors, computer(paint),...

Creating and writing about an own planet with things I like.

The planet of chocolate

"The little prince"- Exhibition

After the project work we've designed the exhibition for all children, for the "teachers of tomorrow", for our collegues and all parents. Today there was the opening and also an information in the local newspaper.
Silvia Hoffmann

Teachers of tomorrow

Making a cartoon about the story around the "Little prince" we've organized a project learning over one week. All pupils aged 6-11years have dealed with the book. Weeks before 17years old pupils from the school next to read the book by themselfes and told the story to our little children. They together were wondering about the highlights of the story and the media they want use to create an own story. The older pupils supported the whole week learning project. They worked together with the teacher and acted as a teacher themselfes. So they got a view onto the other side of learning. They enjoyed it. They also brought lots of own ideas. Once they'll become a teacher. :-) Thank you, young folk!
Silvia Hoffmann

Project week "The little prince" at Erich Kästner School in Gera

Today we started our big project week about the book "The little prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The whole school is working at this project for one week.

Every class is creating a different media belonging to the book, e.g. a movie with Lego/Playmobile, a Comic, a PowerPoint, rod dolls, a radioplay .... Here you can see some of our first steps:

At first - read out the story without in a short version, without showing any pictures.
Afterwards we gave them just an outline of a boy and the children draw "the little prince" out of their mind. So a picuture of the main figure arised in their heads.

Of course some of them already knew the book or the movie.

On class decided to work with the "Lego Movie" maker. So today the wrote a storyboard, built scenery and started with the first recordings.

Stick Man.

Students in their second year of High School Education have worked on the creation of different versions of STICK MAN and used them to tell the story to primary pupils. We share one of those creations. Enjoy it, because it's superb!

By  Mª Soledad González. 

Stick Man

Our pupils enjoyed reading Stick Man by Julia Donaldson.

The third graders were divided into three groups. The first one was responsible for making their own Stick puppets. Here are some of them.

 

The second group came up with new parts of the story. Using Lego blocks they presented adventures of Stick Man on the North Pole and in gold mines.

When they read the story they could see that Stick Man was very useful to people and animals. Some kids thought about other ways it could be used, for example as a tennis paddle, lollipop stick, mast, flute, torch, broomstick, toothpick, ski poles and chopsticks.

                                                                                                                Bogusława Klimowicz