Double Brother Movies: Sharing our learning about the world through making scrolls and movies
Starts 5 June | £45 | Online
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We are 2 brothers making scrolls and movies while learning about the world and sharing all this via online Zoom sessions.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Children and adults and kidults are all invited to join us. We are children teaching and sharing with you!
How it works: There are 8 major themes in each cycle.
The 8 themes are:
1. Universe
2. Earth & Microlife
3. Ocean
4. Plants & Fungi
5. Birds, Dinosaurs and Reptiles
6. Animals
7. History and Culture
8. Science and Technology, Engineering, Maths
Each month has a different theme, so the whole cycle takes 8 months (roughly equivalent to an academic year), which is then repeated. This also gives a chance for the themes to fall under different seasons so we learn different things.
Each month has 4 interactive Zoom sessions (1 per week). The 4 sessions are all different and relate to the theme; nothing is ever repeated in exactly the same way although learning is a spiral staircase (going upwards!) and as children we are excited about seeing connections in everything.
Each session takes a particular topic related to the theme and expands on it in detail. We activate our learning by making something related to the topic and recording it in our handmade horizontal handscroll, which is also a long timeline of the universe and is filmic in its extreme landscape form. On our scrolls we might draw, paint, cut and stick things, 3D... We’ll use things around the house and this will evolve organically. If there is something special we will tell you in class in advance of the next one. Topics are subject to change at short notice (kids!).
The plan for each session, presented by Caspian and Kashi and facilitated by Mama:
- 45 mins in English followed by 15 mins in Chinese
- 20 mins Caspian presents and shares what he’s learned, makes something for you to follow along and records it in his scroll (or you can just watch)
- 20 mins Kashi's turn, as above
- We answer questions/chitchat and say goodbye to English speakers and then switch to Chinese (of course English speakers are welcome to stay but the remaining part of the session will be conducted in Chinese)
- 15 mins in Chinese, a repeat and summary of the English above
For more about us: see https://www.doublebrothermovies.com/
This month: MONTH 2 EARTH and Microlife June 2025
1. Atmosphere: why do some planets have atmosphere and some don’t?
2. Caspi’s stone, obsidian, flint 🪨
3. The 4 elements and thinking about Disney’s Elemental film (Kashi)
4. Germs (Kashi)
Upcoming Sessions
Dates: 5 June 2025 to 26 June 2025
Total of 4 sessions
Thursday 5 June 4pm - 4:45pm London time
Thursday 12 June 4pm - 4:45pm London time
Thursday 19 June 4pm - 4:45pm London time
Thursday 26 June 4pm - 4:45pm London time