Year 5: Term 1
How We Express Ourselves...
Term One:
Theme: How We Express Ourselves.
This term, we will be following different lines of inquiry to help us find out about how "stories may be told in different ways depending on when they were created".
Our lines of inquiry include:
Why stories are told. (Form)
Different types of stories. (Form)
How storytelling has changed over time. (Change)
Why stories are told. (Causation)
Term 1 - Knowledge Organisers
In inquiry this term we have been looking at how storytelling has changed and developed overtime. We wrote a book review of our favourite books.
In inquiry we watched a wordless video called 'The Red Miss Take'. From that video we had very detailed discussions and wrote our own setting descriptions.
In inquiry we did a dictogloss from the video 'The Red Miss Take'. It was a challenge but we enjoyed learning new vocabulary.
In Geography this term we have been looking at mountains. We created a fact sheet explaining the key features of the different types with images.
In art this term, we began looking at skills. One in particular was 'line'. An artist named Nate Williams only used 'line' in his work. His most famous art piece was a portrait and within the image he drew or wrote things that expressed himself. So we did the same and here are ours:
Also in art we have began to look at an artist called Paula Rego. She created art based on Portuguese traditional fairytales and so we have created a factfile all about her work and her journey into her career.