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6. House of sticks: We made it stick!
Our house of sticks is finally ready! After many more hours than we had ever anticipated the house is ready and sitting in the playground at Punta Chica. The children enjoyed playing in it during the last couple of days… Read More ›
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Roald Dahl 8: We have reached the end!
The final steps of our project are ready! Students created a mural and a picture book with the drawings of their favourite Roald Dahl characters. They also brought their favourite Roald Dahl book in Spanish and we are ready to… Read More ›
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Roald Dahl 7: A new member tags along!
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Roald Dahl 6: Behind the scenes! Our learning journey to create the virtual museum.
Here is a step-by-step summary of all the work we have been doing behind our virtual museums. We hope you enjoy it! Meeting the author. In order to know more about Roald Dahl, we read about his life and created… Read More ›
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Roald Dahl 5: We became digital illustrators! Merging Felicitas Tomkinson’s technique with Quentin Blake’s.
We invited Greta Beeh, our Art teacher, as an expert to help us recreate Quentin Blake’s technique digitally. During the Art lesson, 4th graders used an app called “Pen and Ink: A watercolour notebook” to create a digital illustration of… Read More ›
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Roald Dahl 4: Stop, Think, Act!
We decided to make a stop and analyze the work done up to now in our Virtual Museums. We used the colours of the traffic lights to assess our work: Green: My museum design looks great and everything works well… Read More ›
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Roald Dahl 3: We received the visit of an expert!
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4. House of sticks: Making it stick!
Punta Chica, First Grade HOUSE OF STICKS project update: We have been making progress with our House of Sticks, changing plans as we go… adapting what we thought would work best to what actually works best… solving problems as they… Read More ›
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Roald Dahl author study 2: Making a difference through literature
When starting our project, we came across an amazing online application called emaze (www.emaze.com) that provides the students with the possibility of showing their work in a more suitable way, giving them the opportunity of “touring” the museum. This fact… Read More ›