with apologies to Creationists, Darwinists, Scientologists, erm Lactivists, Feminists, Florists and erm anyone with a shread of idea of how history really runs!
At MM today Davies and I created a storyboard picture starting with the big bang and leading to the present day. We had nine boxes to fill and Davies drew some and I drew the others under his instruction, then he dictated what he wanted written underneath each box before colouring it all in. It is now residing on our lounge door, where it shall remain in the style of cave drawings of the past.
Words and grammar are all Davies’ own 🙂
Once upon a time it had a beautiful Sun and Earth and suddenly a big bang exploded.
And then after the bang came the dinosaurs and the dinosaurs were there until a volcano erupted and killed all of them
And then came the Ice Age which had mammoths and loads of other creatures
And after that came the cave men but none of us know how they came, but we do know they came after a giant meltdown.
Next came creatures and dragonflies and birds and fon’t forget the grasshoppers and don’t forget the snail in the corner.
And next came Henry VIII with six wives, then he didn’t choose any except for the last one who lived longer than Henry VIII
Next came a brilliant scientist and he created the television
And this is the picture to show you space when the giant explosion had gone. All nice and happy in their spaceship
Last, but not least, us, the people. Did you see all the snails in every picture?
Clearly it owes a lot to various films – Ice Age, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, Dinosaurs. It also draws in various stuff from the works of Eric Maddern and his suberb Life Story and Earth Story books. There are glimpses of things we have talked about at places like Paradise Park where you walk through a history of time from the big bamg to today past neanderthal man. The TV invention was all his own work, Henry the VIII (big fat man!) is brought to you courtesy of Horrible Histories cds and my one attempt to interfere was man on the moon which he read as the flash back to show us what space looked like once the big bang had all calmed down again, so I didn’t bother putting him right. I love it 🙂
I love it too!
Comment by Roslyn — 06 November 2006 @ 8:04 pm
Fantastic – i’m going to try that with my lot!
Comment by Merry — 06 November 2006 @ 8:16 pm
Lovely stuff!
Comment by Ali — 06 November 2006 @ 10:10 pm
Quite astonished at how you both managed to focus in the mayhem and produce something so impressive!
Comment by Allie — 06 November 2006 @ 10:46 pm
Thats brilliant. I doubt I could have done any better and I had thirteen years at school! Although I probably wouldn’t have got the Henry V111 right as I was useless at the Kings and Queens bit.
Comment by Lucy — 06 November 2006 @ 11:56 pm