Diary of a Wombat

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Responses: Wombat is sleeping,he's bashed up the rubbish bin, clothes line has fallen,likes carrots, about a wombat in Australia Interview with my 4 year old (who won the book by scratching her ear with her toe, just like a wombat)** single work picture book ; The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life) Martine Murray, The reader learns, comically, that animals can train humans, not just the other way around! HOW WILL LIFE BE DIFFERENT FROM NOW ON?

I really like this book and I can see many way that can be incorporated in students learning. The book also has expressive emotions, when the wombat is expressive that he liked carrots. This is promoting good emotional development in children to be expressive of their feelings and behaviour.

Ask students to create a list oftheirmorning routine before school - incorporating the use of a colon. With a lazy, roly-poly character like this wombat, you aren’t going to get a complicated plan. The plan is simple: to walk to the family’s front door and make a nuisance of oneself until food is provided. Explain Task: Students are going to imagine they were a family pet. (of their choice) and write a diary account of one day in the life of this pet. A standout feature of the wombat is the distinctive round bottom, which may be why Bruce Whatley chose to depict the wombat from behind in a number of illustrations. This is surprisingly uncommon for picture books, in which we’re more likely to see ‘ posed for a photo‘ characters. Bruce Whatley doesn’t vary the top-bottom angle of the wombat, keeping to one-point perspective throughout, without making use of high/low angles. This allows the reader to remain right alongside the wombat as an equal at all times. His choice to depict the wombat in various cardinal directions may partly be to do with the need to vary each illustration from the others. But when wombat sits and stars at the boarded-up door, we really feel her petulant patience for carrots, even though we can’t see her face.

single work children's fiction ; The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life) Martine Murray,Activity 7. Guided Reading - read the story a second time. This time pausing at various points to ask questions. The diary-writing wombat’s life revolves around sleeping (lots of), eating, scratching and digging holes. Then, new neighbours appear – a human family – whom, within a short number of days, are convinced to provide the wombat with repeated gifts of carrots and oats. The book ends with: They will research their pet (animal) andfind out about it's daily activities and habits,(what it likes to do), it's diet (what it eats) and how it lives with humans. Notes: Books and information about domestic animals are available in the classroom for students to use in their research. They can choose whatever pet they like, andmust refer to the criteria sheet when completing their diary writing. (see below) Before you commence - ask the students to look at the pictures to see what Wombats like to do and what they like to eat.

p. 20-22 ) Abstract 'Writing for children and young adults requires an ability to inspire wonder combined with deep reserves of patience, says Susanne Gervay.' () A Decade in Wombat Years Diana Plater, Activity9 - Explicit teaching/Joint Construction (The 'colon' and 'lists') Reviewthe use of punctuation in the story, i.e.capital letters, colons and full-stops. Responses should indicate that Mothball's main focus is finding carrots to eat and he does this by digging for carrots in the vegetable garden, bashing up the rubbish bin until he is given carrots, finding carrots in the shopping bags in the car etc.The family’s plan is to work around the mischief of the wombat, filling in holes once they’re dug, buying more carrots once the home store is depleted. BIG STRUGGLE

An activity for the children will be writing a week journal themselves, monitor what they have done during the week even though it might be simple words. Unusually for a children’s book, the wombat is female yet has not been given any typically feminine markers, such as a big pink bow. This is partly to do with the realistic style of art. (There is no obvious sexual dimorphism in wombats — you can’t easily tell the sex of a wombat unless you’re an expert.) I wonder if you assumed the wombat was male until “For Pete’s sake! Give her some carrots!” A study by Janet McCabe told us that unless animal characters are given obvious female markers then we tend to read them as male. single work picture book The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 2003 2003 single work column Model the use of a Colon when creating a list. Model an example of my dailyroutine during the week.Example:Evening: Have decided that humans are easily trained and make quite good pets. Night: Dug new hole to be closer to them. Slept” In all honesty, this book was quite a funny read to begin with. Fortunately, there was a copy of this book in my placement school, that I couldn’t resist to read it a couple of times. The book is depicted with soft tone illustrations. It is about the life of an Australian wild animal that is quite demanding and cannot be tamed. A week journal from Monday to Sunday and what the wombat activity consists off. I say wild, yet it has a confident approach to the human’s territory. The wombat is so cute, that any act that doesn’t perceived to be right to the adult is forgiven instantly. Even though he seems to be a bit pesky, in its own view he doesn’t seem that he is doing anything wrong! He lives a simple life, sleep and eating carrots and oat. (Promoting healthy eating!) Meanjin Online 2018 ; Visions and Values : The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Prizing of Picture Books in the Twenty-First Century Erica Hateley, Develop Criteria Sheet for Diary Writing exercise with the whole class - through discussion and revision of 'Diary of a Wombat' and previous lessons. In Diary of a Wombat, the gag doesn’t rely on the accumulation plot, so it’s much more subtle. You can see it in the line, ‘Demanded oats AND carrots’. Oats and carrots have been the important twin desire lines throughout the story and they come together at the end. WHAT DOES THE CHARACTER LEARN?