Angwin

Dear Angwin Families

 

Angwin children have been busy discussing different types of change this week. After having a special visit from the Chapple room chickens last week we  discussed where they had come from and how they might change in the coming weeks. The children began to discuss other things they knew that changed. Transformers seemed to be a particular area of interest, so this week we invited Autobots and Decepticons into the classroom to see what they do and what transforming involves.

“He’s a robot” explained  Harvey

“Then changing into trucks and cars” said Sujay

“But when do they transform?” asked the teacher

“That’s it, transforming is changing” explained Sujay

“They change to save people, they are rescuebots” added Will

“There’s a mission to do!” exclaimed John

After much discussion about which transformers are good and bad the children took their transformers to the block mat to build a transformer city. There was so much interest that a lot of children decided to join in the play. But they struck upon a problem, there were not enough transformers to go round.

“I don’t have a transformer” said Elliot

“How can we solve that problem? Do you think you could build one with some Mobilo?” suggested the teacher

“Yes, I can do it” said Elliot

Elliot led the way, thinking about what he would like to make. His final product was a dog transformer that transformed into a dinosaur! Impressive Elliot! Later in the week we followed his lead, illustrating our own plans and trying to complete them using our Mobilo shapes, what a fun way to exercise some of our mathematical understandings.

We also followed our interest in changing the colour of our hair this week. Come to our salon for a rainbow haircut!

Mel and Alex