How scary should a calendar be?
The big task is to design and make a calendar illustrated with monsters, one for each month of the year. Each monster will be designed and produced by a team of children using suitable computer software. The calendar will be made to meet the preferences of the users who might be the class themselves or some other group in the school.
We have been asked about software for making monster calendar as MyWorld3 has no Monster unit like MyWorld2. We have found two sites: www.gobo.com - select different heads, bodies and legs on line and print off the result; or www.cs.uu.nl - download free drawing software which is very basic - simple enough for KS1. If you find anything better,
please let us know!
These are reports on activities taken by schools around the country. You can download the activities as acrobat files from the resources section
Monsters in East Anglia (July 9, 2001)
Children in Year 1 have the task of designing a monster for a particular month of the year to be part of a class Monster Calendar. The calendar can be used in the classroom, with a new picture each month. There's an interesting mix of scary and friendly monsters.