Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Homework for my cherubs during weeks two and three.
How will you improve your homework this time? Perhaps you will present it differently, or use linked handwriting, or complete an optional activity…
This fortnight I would like you to write poem or two (which may or may not rhyme), or a prose paragraph, about the endless movement of the sea.
I would like you to write so that readers will feel the sensation of the sea’s movement when they read it. The readers may feel giddy, or sea sick, or invigorated by the tidal shifts.
Excellent snippets will be published on the blog.
Timestable focus 8x.
Social Science challenge for the week. Collect information, fashion, music, inventions, events from the 60s. The decade of flower power, the Vietnam War, the Beatles and Rolling Stones…
List as many words as you can about the 60s. Define at least ten of them.
This fortnight I would like you to write poem or two (which may or may not rhyme), or a prose paragraph, about the endless movement of the sea.
I would like you to write so that readers will feel the sensation of the sea’s movement when they read it. The readers may feel giddy, or sea sick, or invigorated by the tidal shifts.
Excellent snippets will be published on the blog.
Timestable focus 8x.
Social Science challenge for the week. Collect information, fashion, music, inventions, events from the 60s. The decade of flower power, the Vietnam War, the Beatles and Rolling Stones…
List as many words as you can about the 60s. Define at least ten of them.
Monday, 26 April 2010
An alternative story ending by William.
‘Who is he? I said. ‘And why does he sit always alone, with his back to us, too?’
‘Ah’ ! whispered Will ‘He is Lordred and is under strict rules from his father that in all of his spare time he must practise the ways of a Druid. If any one distracts him they will be turned to stone. ‘Why would he want his son to be a Druid so much?’ I say. ‘He is the most powerful Druid in all time. And Lordred has to take his fathers place.’
‘Ah’ ! whispered Will ‘He is Lordred and is under strict rules from his father that in all of his spare time he must practise the ways of a Druid. If any one distracts him they will be turned to stone. ‘Why would he want his son to be a Druid so much?’ I say. ‘He is the most powerful Druid in all time. And Lordred has to take his fathers place.’
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Monday, 5 April 2010
Isla has recommended this to share. It is very clever and tugs at your heart strings. Thanks Isla.
This video shows the winner of "Ukraine’s Got Talent", Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.
The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about £75,000.
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.
She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.
This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.
In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.
Kseniya Simonova says:
"I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment."
The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about £75,000.
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.
She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.
This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.
In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.
Kseniya Simonova says:
"I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment."
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