Kindergarten students enjoyed the book Any & Grasshopper by Luli Gray and illustrated by Guluiano Ferri from our nominated Monarch Award book list. This story was a tale about friendship and kindness as we get closer to Valentine's Day. While reading we discussed how Ant and Grasshopper were treating each other. By the end of the story Ant has changed for the better and we discussed how we can be nicer to our friends and our family.
First Grade
First grade students heard the story The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow by Andy Griffiths. This book is segmented into 10 short stories that rhyme and have rhythm. While there is no plot to the book the structure of the story is what we looked at. The book is set up like a comic so after reading we moved to the computer lab. In there we made our own comics with silly people and dialogue.
Second Grade
In second grade the students are focusing on biographies so after reading the story Art & Max by David Weisner we watched a short video on how David comes up with his story lines as well as illustrations. He describes the different media he uses to make his pictures and his thought process throughout. After the video we applied what we learned about the author/illustrator to create an illustration of our own. David started the story with Bears as the main character, but developed them after many trials into lizards. As a class we started with a human outline and morphed it into a new creature or character. We worked as a team to create the different creatures. We were allowed to add anything we wanted, we just could not erase something someone else had drawn. Take a look at our results below.
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| Schultz's Class |
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| Onorato's Class |
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| Zurales' Class |
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| Walega's Class |
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| Oliver's Class |
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