Peer mediator play: Niamh, Brendan, Jamie

Peer mediator play: Cody, Breea, Dot

Peer mediator play: Tama, Peta, Francesca, Nolan

Dressed for dance - writing prompt

what can this man hear?

see?

smell?

taste?

touch/ feel?

what might he be thinking?

doing...?

will you write in the 1st or 3rd person?

Photo from the Guardian's 24 hours in pictures

10 lessons The Arts teach - Elliot Eisner

1 The arts teach children to make good judgements about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgement rather than rules that prevail.

2 The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

3 The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

4 The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

5 The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

6 The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

7 The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

8 The arts help children to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

9 The arts enable us to have the experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

10 The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolises to the young what adults believe is important.

from http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/january/elliot-eisner-obit-011714.html

How wolves can change the land

Today we watched this clip (again) about how wolves changed the land in Yellowstone National Park. We are learning to take notes, so we watched it five times, adding keywords, diagrams, and ideas to our notes each time we watched it.

Here's our glossary:

and an example of some notes:

The Happy Song by Elizabeth Mitchell

There’s so many things that make me happy

I could go on and on

Radishes, cabbages, holding hands

And getting packages from my friend John

Horses, birthdays, popsicles

And watching my dog play on the lawn

There’s so many things that make me happy

I could go on and on

Strawberries, bare feet, swing sets

Watching my baby brother yawn

Climbing trees and not skinning my knees

Grilled cheese made by my uncle Don

Butterflies, pretty birds, rainbows

And frogs sitting on a log

There’s so many things that make me happy

I could go on and on

When I’m feeling frustrated,

Mad or just a little bit sad

I can think of my list of happy

And then I get so very glad

There’s so many things that make me happy

The list goes on and on

But now I wanna know what makes you happy

I bet your list is just as long

Popcorn… cartwheels… baseball

Pancakes… turtles… penguins

There’s so many things that make me happy

The list goes on and on

There’s so many things that make me happy

I could go on and on                                                 x3

I could go on and on

Here's the song on vimeo: The Happy Song