One World Week- Russia

This week is ONE WORLD WEEK at school. Each class is learning about a different country and the children will be visiting each classroom to learn about the country they are studying and get a stamp in their special passport. We will be taking lots of photos to share on the blog.

In St. George's Class we are learning about Russia. We will be finding out all about Russia for the next month. So far, we have used ICT to research and complete a fact file about Russia, we have been reading and writing about the traditional Russian tale 'Firebird' and painted a mural of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.

During our first week of learning about 'Firebird' we have read some of the story, performed some drama, listened to Stravinsky's 'Dance of the Firebird', watched a ballerina perform the Firebird's dance, then made up dances of our own to the music. We used the description of the Firebird in the story to draw some images of what we thought the Firebird looked like.

Here is a video of a short section of the Firebird ballet:

We will be starting a new page on the blog about Russia- take a look at the page tabs at the top of the blog!