Alien sighting!

Click on the photographs to listen to some of the strange sightings.

Today we heard from Rory that there was a strong possiblity that an alien had been sighted in the school grounds. He asked us if we could fill in one of the alien identification sheets for him so that he could tell which planet it had come from. The children went straight in to role when Honey saw movement outside the window, so we went to investigate, taking our 'cameras' (clipboards with paper and a pencil) with us. We found lots of clues that something strange was going on.

The children took 'photographs' of what they saw. They found lots of clues, like the petals had been knocked off the sunflower. They decided something must have scurried past. There was also a red eye seen in the shed and tentacles over the top.
They found slime, odd footprints and other clues. These were all totally from their imagination, though clues could be planted. Clearly this class have fab imaginations and do not really need concrete clues.

Back in the TARDIS, the trainee time lords reported back their sightings. This was just a different take on 'thought tracking' where someone was invited to be the alien, whilst the other children were the 'mirrors', telling the alien what he was like.



This coupled with other drama activities supported the children's story writing, which you can see on their class blog http://roydon21classes.blogspot.com/search/label/stories

Trainee time lords part 2

Other ways of getting characters into your classroom can be created using vokis or films like xtranormal. The two shown on this page were for two different writing purposes: descriptive writing and instructions. Of course the trainee time lords will have to make decisions and choices about how they are going to do the work and what they will need to help them. As usual, I won't know a lot and won't be very helpful. After all, they need to solve their own problems if they are going to be successful time lords!

Trainee time lords

So, the beginning of a new school year and my second as a year 2/1 teacher. The mission: to train all year and become time lords. This has initially involved a TARDIS on the door and a message from DR Who. I anticipate that we will be put through our paces this year, travelling to many different places, backwards and forwards in time. I would imagine we will get messages from aliens and from Amy Pond too.

Please excuse the terrible voice (courtesy of audacity). No male presence in the house when I created the message!

So the trainee timelords have thought about their 'Smart' areas and know what they could help the Doctor with. Some would be good at running after aliens, some would be great at making new equipment. Others could take pictures of events.

Now he's invited them to explore the TARDIS. Well they need to know where things are kept don't they?

Time travel logs.

This proved to be a useful way to get the children to write weekly news! They shared some really creative ideas about their weekend during our 'talk time' too! Some of them had actually been to Apalapachia and seen some funny goings on!