This week I posed a simple question - where do stories come from? Some of the answers were: books! Miss Bustamante! Uhh, movies? So I took the conversation in a different direction - why do we have stories? We all agreed on two simple reasons - we like them (they make us feel good) and they teach us lessons. With this in mind, we looked at cave paintings. Did you know, a long long time ago, before our Mummies and Daddies (and even Grandmas and Grandpas) were born, there were no books? Instead stories were only told by speaking and drawing pictures in caves! When we looked at the paintings we imagined what stories they were telling. We noticed a lot of them had animals - and that the people who drew them must really like animals. Out of all the cave paintings we looked at - none of them had make-believe animals like ogres and fairies. Instead they were all pictures of animals and people that we could really see! We realised that their stories were connected to the lives that people live. This connected to our line of inquiry how stories connect to our experiences. We then created our own K1 Cave Painting stories, to tell everyone about our own experiences. Have a look at our Cave Paintings with stories attached outside K1 next time you’re at the school! 3D shapes Squares or cubes? Triangles or cones? This week we learned about some very special (not flat on paper) shapes! We spotted them in the classroom and in magazines. We even conducted experiments, finding out which 3D shapes can roll, stack, and slide. Symmetry
Symmetry is like a reflection! When you fold it in half and its the same on each side it’s symmetrical!
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