The IPC -focus this week has been legends and myths, where we have worked with two History tasks in the IPC-unit "The stories people tell".
The pupils have learned more on how to summarize the main events in a story and how to describe the characters and the setting in a story. There has been a lot of different activities going on in our classrooms. The pupils spent quite some time searching for synonyms for frequently used words, by using a thesaurus. They also wrote character portraits or filled out character description grids, to show that one can describe both appearance and personal characteristics when describing a character. They worked hard with their story maps, and since we had read "The legend of Robin Hood", there were many trees to colour in in the end. We have discussed the fact that a story can be told in so many ways - we can read a book, see a movie, hear a song, read a poem or look at a picture.
Tuesday afternoon we went to the library to borrow new books. We tried to find books with a legend or a myth, but we also looked for books about bears, since the Primary pupils soon will read storybooks to the Pre-primary children, and the Pre-primary children are momenterily working with an IPC unit about bears. We are looking forward to this exciting activity, but first we need to practice, practice, practice!
Of course we have done a lot of other things as well! The pupils have worked with their reading and follow-up in class and they have worked in their numeracy books, played numeracy games and discussed numeracy! We are quite certain that everybody learns something new every day!
