I miss Owl class," Mr Wookey sighed as he gazed at their work, which was popping up on his laptop screen. Can you draw your own imaginary World? I have listed some books with super imaginary worlds in them, if you haven't read any of them I can strongly recommend all of them (with the exception of Wizard of Oz which I have't actually read, but seen the film many times!) Tell each other what you can see in each others pictures (rather than describing your own) and discuss what kind of a world you think theirs is. You can grab the whole trio of books here. They also lend themselves nicely to yoga lesson plans and sequences .

At the end of the path, she comes to a gently flowing river. Wondering what the river leads to, she decides to follow it. Boat (boat) Divide the book into sections and split the readers into as many groups. Example sections might be: So, she decides to act. Her hot air balloon lands, and she makes a break for it, running to grab the cage, and just in time she throws open the doors and frees the bird! The girl is captured (sit with knees up and head down) Why don't you arrange a video chat with them?" suggested his wife, who was trying to tidy up the ever growing mountain of paper building up on the dining table. Scarcity-by Aaron GP. Scarcity-The basic concept in economics …. A resource is scarce when there is not enough available to satisfy the various ways a society wants to use it. Microeconomics is the study of individual decisions based on scarcity.

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Read The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman, and imagine your pencil has come to life. Let it dance over coloured and textured papers to explore different kinds of mark making. What happens when you press harder, or hardly press at all? Think of sketching as taking a pencil for a walk, and try drawing from observation in a way that lets the pencil have some fun. Hold the pencil lightly and let it make some interesting marks. In this next idea, pupils add speech bubbles exploring what the characters might be saying/thinking at that point in the story. In this next idea, pupils create a video retelling the story of the book. This is a more challenging way for students to share their understanding of the story. Ideally, if children have their own copy of the book, allow them to read the book independently at their own pace. What would the world look like from a flying carpet? Make a picture map to show the girl’s journey through the landscape in the book. To help with this, look carefully at each image for clues about the next location – for example, when the girl enters the forest, the jetty can be seen in the distance.

Have a go at staging some of the spreads in this book as tableaux. The image showing the king throwing the crayon overboard works well for this, as does the scene in which the girl steals the bird. Collect some everyday objects in a variety of shapes and materials (a saucepan, an old bicycle wheel and an umbrella, perhaps?) and use them to spark ideas for stories. Create a box of ‘story prompts’ by writing questions on cards.Taken as a whole, his illustrations provide a rich and memorable reading experience that will inspire much in the way of thinking and talking, and make a wonderful starting point for creative projects of all kinds. 1 | Playing picture detectives Let your imagination lead the way and begin your journey. Think of names for the places and things you draw.