Session 5 Wednesday 11th March 2020 We had a fantastically exciting day with the Primary 4 class at Oakwood Primary on Wednesday. After a couple of games (warm up, funky chicken) to warm up our minds and bodies - led by the children - we revisited the stories we had all created in the previous session. Miss Piggy and the Magic Book of Spells The Friendly Painting Tiger Momaka the Monkey and the Speaking Potato! We read the stories aloud first, to remind ourselves of them, passing round the story in the circle so that everyone could read a bit if they wanted to. And what hilarious and interesting stories they are! Then, as a whole class, we leapt into the magic ball and went into the story of 'Miss Piggy and the Magic Book of Spells!' This whole story takes place under water so we took a long time practicing our underwater creatures; moving like octopus, seaweed, dolphins and fish, and making the sounds of whales and seahorses. Iona narrated the story and the whole class acted it out as it went along. We used the big blue silk to swim around on top of and dive underneath! When it came to the point in the story when the evil red octopus is about to cast a nasty spell on Miss Piggy we realised that we could incorporate [...]

Session 4 24th February 2020 We had another wonderful day on Monday with Primary 4! We started with the warm-up to get our minds and bodies working and created lots of our own rhymes and similes with actions. The whole class then had ten minutes to go and write down pairs of rhyming similes. Here are some fantastic examples: As boingy as a kangaroo that went wohoo! – Derek As bouncy as a trampoline and as sad as a scene – William As yummy as a cake and as cold as a snowflake – Mason D As tall as a tower and as big as a flower – Amber As warm as tea and as giggly as me! – Kasey Jump as high as a bunny and as round as money – Alina As slimey as a snake and as big as a cake! – Kaydie As big as a giant and as long as the titanic, as wiggly as a worm and as squiggly as a squiggle – Kasey As cozy as a nook and as crook as a book – Tommy As loud as a dog and as white as fog – Jodi We followed this with Funky Chicken which was started off by Mason D. We had lots of [...]

Session 3 19th February 2020 We had another great day with Oakwood’s P4s! We started with Storyplay games and our ‘Big as a Bear’ warm-up grew into a new group poem of similes and actions like 'Make yourself  as... ‘Smiley as a person!’  ‘as Spikey as a hedgehog!’, 'as Rolly as a ball!’, and ‘as Slow as a Sloth!’ We flew off in our Magic Balloons again high over Scotland and the world …seeing stories unfolding far below us! Then we sat and told each other the story of the Molly Whuppie LicketyTale we saw on Monday. Everyone had fantastic recall of the story in great detail. Ten of us dressed up as the King! And twenty of us dressed up as the Giant! We had great fun exploring our castles and our gardens! The Kings paraded to join the Giants and we met all the characters. The Giants interviewed the Kings & then sang gardening songs and did a bit of gardening. As Cold as a Popsicle - Damon As Chocolatey as an Easter Egg - Millie As yummy as a Cake - Kayleigh As Hungry as a Wolf - Ava As Loud as Music - Lily As Soft as a White Tiger - Kaydie As slow as a sloth climbing down a [...]

17th February 2020 This Spring at Oakwood we are working with Primary 4 on a Storyplay literacy residency. All of the children's written & artwork can be looked at on our Facebook page - a selection of pics are below. Session 1 In our first session on Monday, we played a selection of Lickety Playcard games and did reflective drawing and writing. Everyone came up with a Funky Chicken animal, and wrote down this as well as what they had seen from their Flying Balloons. We had a very wholehearted game of Monsters Footsteps with Summer & Darryn as enthusiastic Granny's! In the Magic Ball... we landed on a cold Star. We saw a mountain - someone thought it might be Everest! We handed out boots & hiking sticks, being quiet in case we surprised anything! We all hiked bravely up the mountain, jumping over a crevice, someone saw a polar bear, someone else saw a giant diamond! We encountered two aliens - everyone shook hands with the first and fed biscuits to the second. Someone else gave it Goo. We found the alien’s broken spaceship and everyone got involved in mending it - finding wood, screw-drivers etc. Then we jumped into a crater & fell down into the sea, where we saw lots of sea creatures. Finally, we all had a sleep by the sea looking up [...]