Window

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Beginning as a rural, unspoiled setting, the view gradually transforms into an urban, built up environment. A few years pass and there is a village in the distance… When the boy is twenty, will he recognize the view from his window? The next activity gives the children to opportunity to speculate about the use of the word ‘mirror’ as the title. A boy looks out a window at the same scene over time, and we see the changes that take place in the landscape. Bold, colourful and great fun, this simple and striking book is a humorous depiction of one baby's bathtime routine.

Window’ by Jeannie Baker - Firs Primary School ‘Window’ by Jeannie Baker - Firs Primary School

Many Hamilton units come with interactive Grammar Presentations integrated into the overall teaching and textual context. As part of work in geography, you may want to choose a child from a different country and create a spread which depicts the same part of their day. Children need time to explore, absorb and inhabit a wordless picturebook before constraining meaning by writing the story. Stephens claims that overall, texts with an ecological message show a tendency to locate humans as both the cause of and solution to, ecological destruction, and texts which are seeking to actively engage with ecology issues are usually a variation of the second type (45).Wholeclass discussion:Children will gather as a whole, where the teacher will ask if anyone has heardof Jeannie Baker, including being familiar with any of her picture books. Children willbe asked what a collage is, being reminded that a collage is a piece of artworkthat is able to be made using particular amounts of different pieces, which arethen glued together. I found this such an engaging and dramatic depiction of the dynamic changes that are happening consistently in our world.

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We see that in the context of strikingly different lifestyles, remotely different countries, landscapes, differences of clothing and all, the families are essentially the same. At the book’s conclusion, the family in Sydney can be seen enjoying their new purchase together while the Moroccan family are surfing the internet.They care for each other, they need to belong, to be loved by their loved ones and be a part of their community. She says herself that she works very slowly with projects often taking three or four years to complete but they are also designed as travelling exhibitions of artwork, and several projects have also been short animated films which she has directed. Stunning and unique mixed media collages will amaze readers in this powerful, eco-conscious picture book by the internationally renowned Jeannie Baker.

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Z998034 1991 anthology criticism Abstract From May 1991- August 1992 an exhibtion on Jeannie Baker's picture book Windows travelled to seven Australian cities and towns. The projected rate, if we continue exponentially changing the world, is by the year 2000 we’ll be losing ten species an hour! But she expects that children will accept the book, in much the same way they accept most new things. Usually bits of paper are used; however Jeannie uses anumber of different materials (Jeannie Baker). While it has no text, it does not lack words; what words there are, are incorporated into the visual images; some of the scenes are ‘immersed’ in print.Window was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in Great Britain and both Window and Mirror won the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award.

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However, discussion around the impact of humans on their environment and related issues would facilitate a deeper understanding of the book. Children will enjoy studying all the details of the beautiful collage illustrations in this wordless picture book, which makes an ideal starting point for conversations about the environment. Baker's carefully assembled collages are impactful as enable the reader to realise that the small changes made to the environment add up to produce threatening outcomes. This will allow the teacher to then use thechecklist as a guide of assessing the students when correcting their artbooks. One person said to me it was about how the average male is conditioned to dominate and control the world!Presentation of analysis: Students willgather together, where one by one, each pair will go up to the front of thegroup, display their particular illustrations that they had to focus on,including from Mirror and the dream view collage. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and their custodianship of the lands on which we work and live. When the boy grows up and has a baby of his own he moves away to an ideal spot of unspoilt beauty and you can tell what you're meant to think happens next. I’m not saying that all changes are bad, and we have to live, but I think we should be more careful about the way we live.