For the last couple of days, Pearl has been reading Dinosaurs: a Children's Encyclopedia. We read this to her for her bedtime story for about a month when she was four. It has been so wonderful to hear her read it to us now that she is seven. Its a pretty information heavy book for her age. But she loves it. Naturally, she gravitates toward the pages about dinosaurs with feathers and early birds, as she is completely obsessed with birds. A while ago she read a book about small bird like dinosaurs called Oviraptosaurs. Illustrations of these dinosaurs are adorable.
We have been doing a bit of geology work and one of her assignments was to write a comic using te reo words that pertain to the rock cycle. She could choose three words from a list of five. She loved this idea and is still working on the comic. She looked up several other words to support her story as well, such as ana (cave), rakau (tree), and hēke (egg). Her stoy is about a little dinosaur named Ovi who gets caught up in a volcanic eruption and runs away with another character who gives her a stone that makes her immortal and transports her into the future. Here is the first page.
One of her favorite comics at the moment is the Adventures of Ook and Gluck. It is fiction, but at times it weaves some educational facts into it, particularly about Neanderthals. For example, we were discussing how Archeologists have found thread in Neanderthal caves, which suggests that they sewed. Pearl added that Neanderthals were intelligent and interbred with modern humans. So Pearl was influenced by this type of writing. Comic strip writing is not a recognized formal type of writing, but it can really get her to write and express what she knows.
Contuing with her interests, Pearl read for most of the day. This evening she then painted a painting of dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period, most of which were from the Oviraptersour family. It turned out beautifully.
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