Tuesday 30 July 2013

TERM #3 YEAHHHHH!!!

Wow! Another great start to yet another amazing TERM…


TERM #3 and we are all back refreshed from a great well deserved break ready for a lot of CHANGE and more fun learning.


Our new FOCUS STATEMENT for this term:
Lights, Camera, Take Action for Change!
And FOCUS QUESTION:
How can I tell a story about change through film?



This week we looked at a story called Boundless Grace to set the scene for Change. 


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This is an adorable book about a young African-American girl named Grace. Grace’s mother and father split up when Grace was a very young child. Her father lives in Africa and Grace lives with her mother in the United States.

Grace feels that her family “isn’t right” because it doesn’t resemble the families that she reads about in her school books. When an unexpected plane ticket arrives for Grace and her grandmother, Grace feels so nervous that she won’t remember her father or fit in with his new family.

Upon arrival to her father’s home in The Gambia, Grace faces her new brothers and sisters and her beautiful new stepmother. Grace has trouble accepting the new stepmother at first but soon finds her to be a lovely addition to her life.

Grace leaves Africa with a new feeling that family is what you make of it and her family is special just the way it is.