Here's what Kindergarten (Early Stage 1, 2008) said about starting our Fables project:
Do you have the Internet at home?
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Answer
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Tally
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Additional comments (scribed from oral).
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Yes
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4 x “You can use Internet to go on games/[name of game].”
1 x “I look at Lego 'Star Wars' figures.”
1 x “You can use the Internet to do amazing stuff.”
1 x “You can use Internet to see scary things.”
1 x “You can use the Internet to print things out.”
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No
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3 x “You can use Internet to go on games.”
1 x “When I was five, Mum said 'Wait till you're six' to use the Internet. Now I'm six, she says 'Wait till you're seven'.”
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Don’t know
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0
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(This year, no demonstration of how a wiki page works was required to illicite responses:)
Why are we using a wiki to write and publish our school fables?
* “You can use a wiki to write books.” (x 2)
* “You can share it with everyone/people.” (x 2)
* “Because we want to.”
* “It's good."
* “With the Internet you can talk to people in Scotland about soccer without a telephone.”
* “You can use a wiki to make stories.”
* “You can use a wiki to tell them your stories.”
* “You can use a wiki to print out easily.”
What will we have learned when we have finished?
* “We will learn the first thing you said - but I forgot.”
* “How to play games.”
* “We will know about the Internet.” (x 2)
* “We will have done ten/twelve stories on the Internet.” (x 2)
* “Know about games.”
* “Learn how to drive a car [ie. driving program].”
* “I don’t know.” (x 2)
* “Sharing stories and how to write.”
* “Circle time.”
* “How to type in stories what we wrote.”
Brainstorming
After reading some fables we noticed: lots of animal characters; there was always a lesson (moral) at the end.
Week 3 - Favourite animals: cats (allergic?), giraffe (who has his own special space), fox (sneaky), dolphin (helping people to water ski - going "Forward with Pride" - our school motto), sharks (sharp teeth, show off, brushes her teeth), panda (nice, look like bears, on TV; all black?), poodles (pink! - like to lick people), dog (that lets me go anywhere), kangaroo (with a joey inside her pouch - and a little bed), rhinoceros (go riding on it), dinosaurs (in a police uniform and a ballerina's tutu), a lion (pride). Decision: all four fables this year will address our school motto, "Forward with Pride".
Week 4 - Circle time: shark has gills; lions go forward with their pride (of lions) and can run faster than a car; kangaroos and emus can't walk backwards, always go forward (with pride); giraffe likes eating toast for breakfast; magical fox turned the poodle pink, turns into a dragon, always buys strawberry (pink) ice cream.
Week 5 - Investigate more of Aesop's fables; Who was Aesop?; discuss morals in fables.
- Circle time: "Forward with pride" - our school motto. Makes us think of forward, four (number), 4 (numeral), fore (golf - "Look out in front!"), going for wood (forward), we would go for wood. Woodpeckers and beavers like wood. Fences, branches, sticks, treehouses, cubby houses, tables and chairs are made of wood. Fire needs wood. Trees need bark. Pride of lions. Things that make us proud: playing on my bike; Mum buying me stuff; parties; using my own money to buy a Slushy at 7-11; my doctor was proud of me at the hospital when I got stitches and he gave me a toy; winning at my DS game; my teacher is proud when I read well; winning lollies, stickers and Good Ones at school.
Week 6 - "Recent visitors" to the wiki include locales of: Soul-t'ukpyolsi, Hlavni Mesto Praha, and the exotic French location, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur. Where are these places?
- Circle time: Bringing the pink poodle and the shark (favourite characters) into the same fable as the giraffe. Note that a giraffe now also appears in the "Kangaroo and emu" fable, according to artwork. Inspiration from French locale discovered from "Recent visitors". Perhaps also need to investigate the art of feng shui? The colour red? Eiffel Tower?
Week 7 - Guest artists from Class SCLB listened to the four draft fables and drew new artwork of the characters. Search Google Images to find pictures of the Eiffel Tower. Use books to provide shark models for drawing. The lion story "needs some tigers", according to one artist.
- Circle time: Continuing to develop the fable of the giraffe, pink poodle and shark (favourite unused characters incorporated into one of the four existing fable drafts).
Week 8 - Circle time: Completion of "The giraffe's own room" fable. Read-through of completed fable and final editing.
- Continuing to develop the fable of the wrestling rhino by exploring the other briefly mentioned characters. Google Image searches on rhinoceroses (discuss rhinoceros snake? rhinoceros beetle?) and peacocks. Repeat with guest artists, who then draw some peacocks.
Week 9 - Read-through of completed fable, "The clever rhinoceros", and final editing.
- Circle time: Continuing to develop the fable of the lions and tigers. Read-through of completed fable and final editing.
Week 10 - Circle Time suggestions for how to link the giraffe in a completed fable ("The giraffe's own room") to the "Kangaroo and emu" one, because one artist had insisted on putting the giraffe in the emu's place on the Australian Coat of Arms. Read-through of completed fable and final editing. Final read-through of other three fables.
- Pre-activity questions reposed, scribed and compiled. Student speculations re the arrival of the library's new interactive whiteboard (IWB). How will it change the way we use the wiki and Internet searching?
Coming: What Kindergarten (Early Stage 1, 2008) said about completing our Fables project.
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