Today, in Italy class, we started looking at the story of the Iron Man by Ted Hughes. The children needed to understand and appreciate the actual size of the Iron Man. As a class, we worked out that the Iron Man was roughly seven times taller than Hogarth.
We then went out onto the playground to discover how tall he would be. We got seven children to lie down head to toe for his height and other children for his legs and arms. The rest of the class then drew around them with chalk for the outline. Afterwards, we looked at the outline on the playground.
Ryan thought that he was "gargantuous", Theodora used the adjective "colassal" and Majus thought he would be "terrifying".
