Lynley Dodd Zachary Quack
This term, Tūī 4 have been learning about Lynley Dodd, a NZ children’s writer who has a very vivid and descriptive writing style. We split off into groups and chose a Lynley Dodd character. My group, No5, chose Zachary Quack. Our teacher generated a 7 simple rhyming phrases using AI, these phrases correspond to the character of choice, excluding group 1 and 7 who started and finished the presentation. Zachary Quack is a frolicking, joyful duckling whom accompanies Hairy Maclary in his adventures.
Group 5 consisted of 4 children, Giada, Isla, Cassandra and I. We worked hard to create actions and memorise the words. After brief negotiation the speakers and performers were decided. Isla and I were to say the paragraph and Giada and Cassandra were to create and perform the actions. The paragraph goes:
(Olivia) And who’s this small friend with a splash and a quack?
(Isla) It’s Zachary Quack who never looks back!
(Olivia) A duckling so tiny, with feathers so bright,
(Isla) Splashing and dashing with all of his might!
And Giada and Cassandra made corresponding actions that align with the words. The other groups did different things but pretty much ended up with the same result. A separate group of Tūī 4 students put together a Capcut, alongside working with their character groups. Eventually, we got it all together for assembly in due time, and the final product put together was marvellous.
Here are the photos that our group presented:
