Class 3 Building

Class 3 have been very busy learning about different styles of shelters from around the world and how they fit the climate and environment of the people who live in them. Last week the students presented their House Building Project, not once, but 3 times to their peers, Class 4 and 2 who were very impressed with their efforts. They grew in confidence and spoke from the heart about their experiences collecting materials, struggling with old and new processes to replicate building techniques and seeking advice from their parents when choosing and constructing their houses. The students made cob and lime render, thatched roofs and tied bamboo together, worked with tiny bricks of clay as well as cut tin, hides, timber, canvas, hessian and made many layers of papier mâché. To support this journey, they began to learn the art of drafting before writing in their Main Lesson books. A draft gives them time to practice their beautiful cursive writing with the help of lined coloured thirds before deciding how to space it out in their Main Lesson book. Constructing their own sentences using the scaffold of who, what, where, when, why and how to describe the Gunya, Tipi and Pueplo they have transitioned well to this process. This will be a good segway moving forward to our next Main Lesson which is to look at the Land of Grammar.