Cave Painting (or drawing on the white chalk with a blackboard)

During our Unit of Inquiry on Materials, we started reading the book, 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King. Stig is a caveman who lives at the bottom of an old quarry close to Barney's grandmother's house. Barney finds Stig one day when he falls through the roof of Stig's den. They become friends, even though they cannot talk to each other.

Since the quarry is no longer in use, people throw all their rubbish away down there; Stig is good at finding new ways in which to use old things.

On the same day that they cut down an enormous tree (getting warm once in the process) and then use it to start a fire (getting warm for the second time) Stig picks up a piece of charred wood and uses it to draw an amazing hunting scene on the chalk wall of the den.

Then we had a go at using charcoal and chalks to make our own hunting scene. We dusted the paper with charcoal powder and smudged it to give it a greyish background. Then we used charcoal and chalk to make our scene.



"I like yours because the of the animals' eyes and the blood," said Tanmay

What is it like?

My whistle
This is a whistle and it is made of plastic. It has a star at the side and it says Made in China. It is yellow and green. It makes this sound; pheep!



What is it like?
It is opaque and hard.

My ?
I don't know what this is called but if you wash your clothes and you need to dry them, you put this on a hanger so it doesn't fall off. This part is metal and it is that part that makes it move. 'It looks like a spring,' said Fiona.
The rest is made of wood.
Do you know what it is called in your language? In English it is called a peg.



What is it like?
The wood is hard and the metal is hard too and they both are not breakable.