The Year Six’ at Sherwood Primary are learning more and more about our upcoming exhibition. Recently we were talking about taking action and learning more by doing so. I wanted to inquire into learning about glass because I liked the video that I watched, called ‘A Day Made of Glass’.
There is a company called Corning, who make awesome videos about how glass might be used in the future, which I was particularly interested in. I took action by emailing the company, saying that I admired their work and wanted to find out more. I asked if they were making any more “Day made of glass” videos, and got a reply from the Corning company all the way in New York, America!!!!! They said that they appreciated my enthusiasm in wanting to know more. They wished me luck in my future endeavours and introduced me to new resources to help my learning, such as their youtube channel. Taking action is the key.
On Thursday the 4th of July, I went to the multi talented Stu Duval’s writers workshop. Stu Duval is so talented. He can draw cartoons, draw amazing pictures with pastels and my favorite quality about him, he can write awesome stories. Stu Duval’s workshop is like a small meeting, with three selected students from classes in the school. Stu Duval taught us how to stock our brain with ideas, just like you would stock a pantry with food. He told us the special key to writing the “why” key. Just look around the room and find an object. For example a chess game. Ask yourself why, why is there are chess game there. Maybe a magic wizard waved his wand and sent it there. Then ask again, why , why did the wizard send it there and so on until you're done. Voila, you have a fabulous story!!!! Next minute you could be writing a story about explosions and world war one, and to think, it all started with a chess game. Stu Duval is my hero.
