Back into the action for Term One 2016!!

This week's motivational quote for our blogs and our attention grabber and our Notebook Quotebooks...

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I have a purchased copy of this exact poster, which will stay permanently on display on the upper wall with our school motto etc. This week the pupils will write it into their own 'Notebook Quotebooks' and I will also call out the first part of it when I want their attention (and they will show I have their attention by responding with the rest of the sentence.)

Have a great year everyone!

We need a peaceful world...

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TED TALK by a ten year old - empowering children NOW

This young girl is amazing - very confident and very astute! What she has to say is very appropriate to those of us (educators) who are aiming to increase pupil agency within their learning programmes...

Henri Matisse - art appreciation

Henri Matisse 1948 (image source)

For art appreciation discussions this term we are looking at the cutout/collage works of Henri Matisse (1869-1954):

Biography information:
Tate Modern Gallery (For Kids) 
Ducksters.com   
KinderArt
Museum of Modern Art

Classroom lesson ideas: Crafty Classroom   









First, let's find out how this modern artist worked when producing his cutouts:

Videos from the Museum of Modern Art

http://www.biography.com/news/henri-matisse-the-cut-outs-moma (pictures in my IWB picture drive folder)

Next, we will discuss some of Matisse's cutout works - What do they make us think of or feel? What do we like about each one? What do we not like? What questions do we have about each one?

Photos below are from this MoMA website source

Composition Green Background 1947

Large Decoration with Masks 1953

Le Clown 1947

Nuit de Noel (Christmas Night) 1952

Pale Blue Window `1948-49

The Codomas 1943

The Fall of Icarus 1943

The Sheaf 1953

Two Dancers 1937-38

The Horse and Rider 1943-44

Swimming Pool 1952

For our activity, we will each choose one of Matisse's works shown above and use this as our inspiration for a cutout artwork of our own design... (watch this space for a link to the results!)

Writing revision -cool pupil video

This is a great video to show pupils how to revise and why it is important...

Supporting pupils with dyslexia

A couple of resource links that we received this week:

From the DyslexiaDaily blog - 17 ways to support students with learning difficulties

This video comes via this link from the DyslexiaDaily blog - great if you need to inspire someone with dyslexia to see that they too can be a high-achiever!

A feedback overview

Courtesy of: the Australian Society for Evidence Based Teaching