Inspiring+Creativity

I know a lot of people have done this but this is about our Alien Crash Site. We had a community theme week and on the Friday we staged an alien crash. We got some scrap metal, card and plasic sprayed or covered in silver and gold and lots of slime. There was a portable barbeque hidden inside which gave off loads of smoke (especially when damp grass was put on top of it) and a tape recorder playing really wierd sounds. The head was dressed in a white safety suit and went round in total panic mode. It probably worked better for younger children who were really taken in by it. Most of mine were to begin with and the one's who weren't played along in the spirit of things. All the school wrote about it, KS1 did loads about who the aliens were, why they came, described them etc etc. We did newspaper reports with my year 5 and staged mock interviews using the digi blues. This is the link to the page on my class wiki http://www.everybodywrites.org.uk/primary/active-writing/reporting-on-an-alien-landing/ This brilliant site gives a case study of another school doing a similar thing. Hope someone finds this useful :-) Wicked Witch

 I think there are some excellent ideas in this...I am going to think of something creative for my India topic (hopefully!!!). Think we might get on an imaginary plane and let it take us away. **~Jog_on**  

Not sure how creative it is but today as it was sunny we went outside and blew bubbles. It was very windy and they disappeared really quickly but all the kids really loved it. Especially my very switched off boys who competed to burst the most. Back in the classroom we collected words into nouns etc and then started to think about lines of poetry with a focus on metaphor and simile. I had some fantastic ideas from the whole class. At the end they wrote concrete poems in bubble shapes. It was a fun lesson with a good outcome. **WW**

WW   what a lovely idea! **~ sal 26**