Here in Grade 3/4 we were drawing animals and trying to
make their pictures exactly the size they are in real life. We got the idea and
the measurements from a book called Actual Size by Steve Jenkins. We went
outside with chalk and tape measure and rulers and a table with measurements on
it. The units of measurement we used were metres, centimetres and millimetres.
“We drew a tiger, the face was small and the body was big. I
thought it looked funny but nobody teased us. It was fun.” Sree
“I did a drawing a drawing of a tiger but it was too long.
So I tried again.” Sharis
“I drew a tiger and an elephant with Sree. We didn’t argue
because we agreed on our ideas before we started. We did a massive elephant
too.” Sondos
“Hibo and I started a shark but messed it up, we did a
spider but we did it too big. So then we started another spider and this time
we drew it the right size.“ Abdirahman
“Harun and I drew a stick insect and an elephant. The
elephant took over the stick insect because it was so big! So we drew another
stick insect, it was about half a meter.” Mubarak
“Farhiya and I drew a Goliath Beetle but it got rubbed off.
I was angry but I controlled myself and I drew a fantastic gorilla.” Said
