A picture of the post-man. (Grade 1) part 5

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Students from Class B.

We will first hand out all the sketches and have comments in an exchange activity.

 “Ahh, let’s examine them”

A voice said with happiness.

The children know that being able to show and talk about their work represents them.

 We had a space where students could look and say comments about work.

‘I’m writing about the tyres”

Someone came to tell me.

 “The way they drew tyres was particularly good”.

And someone went back to their seat happy.

 

We can now start to add colour to our picture.

We have to think hard to remember the colours from the image in our mind.

Some comments about the work.

 Miss SY’s work ‘A postman’s work’

You’re very skillful. You can see the building and shops alongside the post-office van, and it seems someone is running.

 I think it is really good.

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I think so too, the car is moving and someone is next to it.右Does the child next to the car have a letter in their hand?!

 I smiled when I saw this picture, and ma happy to have seen it.

 

Drawing the post-man (Grade 1) Part 4

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Students from Class A.

We will add colour to the sketch we did previously.

Before adding colour we had an exchange activity.

There were 3 things to think about.

1) This is where I think it is good.

2) Why do you have this here?

3) What does the picture say to you?

For 1 and 2 the students can just think ofa simple reason.

For 3 I want them to think more deeply about the picture.

I want them to use some imagination when looking at the picture.

 I heard lots of people saying they could hear the sound of the engine.

Some people thought the carwas not running so there wouldn’t be a sound.

Some of the observations were amazing!!

Such great imaginations!

 

We started trying to add colour thinking about the image we made in our heads of the car before it left.

The large amount of red across the car is impressive.

 The bike is covered in paint.

 The fun part of the bike is thinking about all the lines it had.

We made the most of a 40 minute lesson to try and get lots done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drawing the post man (Grade 1) Part 3

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Students from class C.

We were blessed with some excellent weather for sketching.

We were looking for the workers from Japan Post and their car and motor-bike.

“Wow, cool!”, “They really came”

The children were saying as they saw a familiar vehicle in a new situation.I think it is cool even for adults to see the bike and shiny car up close.

 “Nice to meet you!”

Pleasant voices echoed from the front of the school.

To make their own drawing it is important to first think which direction to draw from.

People finally decided where to start sketching.

The place Class C sketched from was different to other classes.

There was a question as the children started to work…

 “Teacher, When can we ask the postman some questions?”

There were a lot of things people wanted to see and ask.

 “What’s inside here?”

They asked to the man from Japan Post.

The post-man explained and showed them inside the van.

“Wow, I want to see this” 「これは何に使うんですか？」 “What do you do with this?”

The car seemed very spacious as even though it is the same as cars we see every day there are no seats. Some people wanted to see the engine.

More questions were being asked during break time. We could show our work, and get advice from the post-men.

When students show their work you can see the excitement. Their enthusiasm is transmitted.

Mr. Y and Mr. Dunlop the English teacher came to look at the work.

Mr. Y prasied the work with a smile.

Some people were so focused they didn’t even notice Mr. Dunlop behind them.

‘Oh! Good!’ he says, and the children are surprised after concentrating on their work.

There is little time left.We need to try to get an image in our heads of the postman with his bike or car so we can finish our work later.

Finally we said our thanks for coming.

The thank-you was genuine and heart-felt.

 Some people wanted to shake hands before leaving.

We had a fun time meeting with the people from Japan Post and had been looking forward to it.

A picture of the post-man (Grade 1) Part 2.

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Students from class A.

We asked the post-men from Japan Post to keep modeling for a second class.

They answered lots of questions from the students very well.

’How many letters can you get in the basket on the back of the bike?” someone asked.

I’ll show you, take a look inside…

“You could fit a letter from every student at Futaba, from the elementary school all the way up to the High School”.

He answered.

 ‘Wow! That many?!’

The children said with surprise.

 ‘I want to drive!!’

Someone said and after putting on the helmet they jumped up onto the seat.

‘What’s this by the handle?’ I heard someone say.

‘This is the horn, it makes a loud noise’was the reply.

While sketching there are many more exchanges like this.

We started to work very hard.

Father Richard came along who had allowed us to use the grounds of the church.

After drawing our sketches we took time to say thank-you.

After finishing our work we stopped to look back as the Japan Post vehicles left the church.

Everyone turned to call ‘Bye-bye! Thank-you!’

 When I looked back I could see everyone waving at the same time.

While it was being done as a courtesy, it seemed so genuine and full of heart as they called to say farewell. 

 You can see Ms. M smiling at their good will.

 

After meeting for a short time we have our sketches and can think about painting.

 

 

 

 

 

A picture of the post-man (Grade 1)

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Students from Class B.

I was worried about the chance of rain, but we were able to work while it stayed cloudy.

We drew our sketches in the grounds of the church on Josui Street.

Beside the church next to school we looked at the red car and motor-bike from the post office.‘Wow, cool!’

Someone said.

Everyone was really interested as you don’t often get a chance to see post office vehicles close up.

We can keep looking at break time.

 We were so happy to be able to try wearing the post-man’s helmet and try holding his delivery bag.

“Wow this bag is so heavy!!”

She says as she holds the big bag.

Time flew as we had this experience of sketching.

The people from Japan Post gave me some comments about the work. Well done for everyone working so hard on their sketch.

If you see us delivering around town please feel free to say hello.

After sketching some students came forward to say thank-you for the visit on behalf of class B.