DUAL LANGUAGE LITERACY PROJECT - THE WITCHES BY ROALD DAHL

We are working this year around our inquiry question "How do stories connect the past with the present?" , our focus is to have a strong literacy base that allows us to connect all the core subjects and enhance reading comprehension.

At the beginning of the year, we started reading the book "The Witches" , by Roald Dahl. I enjoyed reading this book aloud everyday, it allowed my drama side to happen in the class. We had lots of fun and now I have a group of students that have turned into Roald Dahl fans and are researching, reading and making power points about him ( still, three months after) .

The plan was to connect art and Spanish with this story , and based on the chapter where the children disappear, we designed "Missing" signs that were displayed around the school hall.



We worked the self-portrait technique following "that artist woman " blog guidelines.

1st.- We used a recycled paper as background , with white paint and a roll students coloured the background.

2nd.- Students practiced the self portrait technique and when they were happy with the result, they transferred it to the "canvas"

3rd.- With a sharpie, they outlined the contour of the portrait. Then with tempera paint, they coloured it. This is how they turned out

4.- For the written description of the "missing" child we worked in Spanish . They learned how to describe themselves physically and the present tense of the verb "tener".

 They described the eyes, moth, nose, hair and even the ears. They added a "special feature" that makes them unique. It was very fun for them. This is one example.