Weslandia

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urn:lcp:weslandia0000flei:lcpdf:9c7e8cf4-2e57-46f2-acba-e919b8f0cb02 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier weslandia0000flei Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t56f4rg9r Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781442045972 Wesley invites the random seeds flung by the wind to grow in his garden furrows. What grows is not ‘ tomatoes, beans or Brussels sprouts‘ selection of Wesley’s fellow gardeners. Wesley encourages his unknown crop, tending it until he’s able to experiment with what it may offer him. Fruit, juice, tubers, fronds to weave… Wesley builds a whole new industry and civilisation from his crop. Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - This story was about a boy name Wesley, who didn’t fit in at school or at home. Wesley felt that he did not fit into his own culture. He embarks on a new journey of planting food crop. So he spends his summer creating food, and things he loves. Wesley plants fruits and vegetable seeds. Also, he took natural ingredients from in his garden, Wesley created unique, and comfortable clothing that were very different from other clothing worn in his culture. Wesley invites his culture-mates in because he believed the things he created were useful. Children teased Wesley in the beginning of his new creations, but eventually appreciated Wesley and celebrated him for his talent and unique ideas.

Would you like to live in Weslandia or in a land of your own making? Use details from the story to support your opinion.

The Dead Gentleman

If you are confident to support your class in talking honestly and safely about how they feel, then try an exclusion role play.

Choose two works (books, poems, songs, paintings, etc.) by one (the same) author or artist, or choose one work by an author (writer) and one by an artist (painter, performer, etc.). Compare and contrast the ways the works have affected you. In each case, the volunteers should approach their group and ask to join in, only to meet with a rejection. Encourage children to ‘get in role’ but set ground rules in advance, in partnership with your class. Wesley makes his own house as well as all the objects he needs. Ask children to design their own ideal homes.Try counting and calculating in Base 8 instead of Base 10. “Wesley invented… games rich with strategy and complex scoring systems.”

The following table shows the ATOS score and the percentage of children who should be able to read the text in each year group. For example, if a text in Y3 has a score of 3.62 - 4.2, it should be independently accessible to children between the 50 and 25 percentile. If a text has a score of 4.5 in a year 4 text, it should be independently accessed by the top 10% of children in the class.

Bad Apple

Weslandia‘ is proud, individual, emotive and inspiring. It’s the story of the victim who rises and triumphs, yet there is more.There are considerations about opening your mind and heart to possibilities, thinking widely, being curious, and appreciating individuality.