Kindergarten

Over the past few weeks Kindergarten have been learning the skill of visualisation. We worked through descriptive sentences where the children had to draw what the sentence was telling them to draw. The children really enjoyed doing this.

Year 1

In Year 1 we have been looking at Visualising. Visualising is using words in the text to make pictures in our mind. We listened to a description of an animal with two large, curved horns, bright orange eyes and a slimy black tongue. He has an enormous poisonous wart on the end of his wet nose. He has black sharp pointed prickles down his back and claws as sharp as razors, but his teeth are blunt and brittle. His fur is soft but mattered. He has knobbly knees and turned out toes. His feet are gigantic, and he has a long bushy tail. He is also terrifyingly large. Check out how we imagined this animal!

We also read a short story about a dream dragon. We used the description to imagine what we thought the Dream Dragon would look like. 

Year 2

In year 2 we have been doing a lot of visualising. We have learnt that we can use the clues that an author gives us in the text to develop our own picture in our heads of what is happening in the story. We do this in reading groups where we focus on visualising what the character looks like or we visualise the setting where the story is taking place. We have started reading The Magic Far Away Tree and we have started our own drawings of what we visualise the tree to look like. We are adding details to our drawings when we get more descriptions from the text as we continue listening to the story. Below are some work samples of our visualisations from our reading groups and some of our beginning illustrations of the Magic Far Away Tree.

Stage 2

Stage 3