Haiti Posters

To end our Haiti topic, we produced posters to persuade people to visit Haiti. We considered the positive, exciting things about Haiti (rather than some of the sadder things we have learnt about). Below you can see some examples of our work:

Please leave us a comment to tell us what you think of our work.

Aoife made this fabulous video to persuade people to visit Haiti- it made Miss Benn giggle so much that we wanted to share it with you! Enjoy!

'Bouki Goes to Market'- Our first podcast!

At the end of our Haiti topic we discovered the Haitian tradition of 'Krik Krak' oral storytelling. We listened to a folk tale called Bouki Goes to Market and played lots of games to learn the story. Each child was able to tell the story and we all joined in to tell the story together, one line at a time.

We used a microphone to record our storytelling and Miss Benn has uploaded it as a podcast.

To hear our story, click here!

http://podcast.lgfl.org.uk/channels/2105201St-Georges-Class.xml

Drapo Flags

This half term, as part of our Haiti topic, we have been learning about the Haitian art of Drapo flags. We enjoyed looking at these beautiful sequinned flags and finding shapes and designs that we liked. We looked particularly at flags made by an artist called Georges Valris.

We then worked in groups to design our own Drapo flags. The designs were drawn carefully onto our flag material.

 

This week, we painted our flags as a group.

Yesterday, we used needles and thread to sew on sequins to embellish our flags. We loved the sequins on the real Drapo flags and wanted to make ours look sparkly and special too.

Next week, we will add our finishing touches ahead of the Celebration Procession with the whole school on Thursday.

Our Writing About Haiti

I have added some samples of the children's excellent writing from this half term to our Haiti page.

Take a look! These are just a few of the many pieces of great writing about Haiti that the children have created this half term.

Leave a comment to tell them what you like about their work.
Click here to read them.

Haiti

Have you seen our new page? Click here to read about our Haiti topic! See our story maps and our earthquake shelters- we will be adding more soon!