Co-operative Learners

We've been practising our co-operative skills in our learning groups by creating a game with two balloons. There were some varied and creative games that the groups came up with, ranging from: can you find the nose on a moving balloon while blindfolded?, guess who's holding the balloon, and whose balloon will zoom out of air the fastest? We had to practice talking and listening to each other's ideas and communicating our ideas to others.

Illustrated Haikus: The beauty of words and illustration, John's Literacy Group

Today some of us in John's literacy group wrote our own haiku (a traditional Japanese poem with three lines- one 5 syllable, next 7 Syllable and last 5 syllables). Then we created exquisite illustrations to put alongside these- integrating what we have learned about the beauty of form in poetry and the skills we have learned in visual art. Beautiful work all round!