Today we visited Paper Monkey Theatre at the Goodman Arts Centre. We learned about the origins of shadow puppetry, watched a shadow puppet show, and made our own puppets. Some interesting new words were introduced to us to describe how (or if) light passes through things, including 'opaque', 'transparent', and 'translucent'. We look forward to explore shadow puppetry more at home and in the classroom and are very excited about some of the stories we started creating!
Taking action back at school with our learning: