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My Year 5 class and I did a quick brainstorm about what a symbol is - their answers included @ - email, the arrows for recycling, C for Centro Bankstown, M for McDonalds. I then asked them to grab a partner and handed each pair a copy of the symbols page (with the aeroplane) and asked them to brainstorm what things came to mind of each of the images on the page. They came up with a range of things for each (I will attach tonight 15/8) some similar and some very different.
 * __Between Session Tasks__**
 * __Workshop 1__**

The one thing that surprised me the most about the lesson was the fact that terms like 'fencing' came up which I didn't know they knew anything about :)

I did not alter the page at all as I wanted a benchmark of their understanding and abilities before trying the activity with "harder" images.

__**Workshop 2**__ We looked at body language and how everyone "reads" people differently. Each student had a whiteboard and then drew a face to show what they thought was a "happy", "confused", "angry" face. This demonstrated that some students had similar elements to their drawings but not everyone was the same. Photos have been included of their whiteboard drawings. [|VisualLiteracy_BodyLanguage_EmotionalReading.pdf] We then looked at the body language messages that people send. Many different intepretations were given for exactly the same body language.

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We then discussed the emotions or "reading" we got from the black and white images included in the handout. See linked file.

Workshop 3 Workshop 4 Workshop 5