This week is Dragon Week. As you will see, our Dragon is resting on our back wall. We will be finding out all about dragons in inquiry groups. To do that, you will need to go to our Fairytales and Middle Ages Blog for the links.
1. BASIC DRAGON INFO
2. DRAGONSVILLE
Some descriptions of dragons:
1. Smaug from “The Hobbit”
Smaug by John Howe
When Bilbo Baggins first encounters Smaug he can hear his snoring – “like the noise of a large pot galloping in the fire, mixed with the rumble of a gigantic tom-cat purring” – but is most of all struck by the reddish glow and heat that Smaug gives off, both of which travel up the passage-way so Smaug is felt long before he is seen. His flames are green and scarlet.[5]
There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his fires were low in slumber. Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light. Smaug lay, with wings folded like an immeasurable bat, turned partly on one side, so that the hobbit could see his underparts and his long pale belly crusted with gems and fragments of gold from his long lying on his costly bed.