Here are the rest of our animations. We hope you enjoy watching our videos. See our previous post for the first ten videos. What do you think of our Art Work? our animations? Do you have a favourite storybook character? Please leave us a message and tell us what you think. Harry the Dirty Dog [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Media Literacy'
More Characters Talking
March 20, 2013 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Tags: Art·Media Literacy·Reading·writing
Making our Favourite Characters Talk
March 19, 2013 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
If storybook characters could talk what would they say? Continuing our Reading Week projects this week , as promised we are making our characters talk. We used an ipad app called iFunFace. We used this app to create our talking characters and then saved each one to the camera roll on the ipad. I also [...]
Tags: Fun·Media Literacy·Reading·writing
Favourite Storybook Characters
March 15, 2013 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
During Reading Week Grade One chose their favourite characters from our favourite books. First we watched a Keynote slideshow with different characters that we could identify. Thanks to Barbara Kurtzman Philips for this Keynote slideshow. New Project 1 from Mary Ellen Lynch on Vimeo. Then we brainstormed our own favourite characters. We looked for [...]
Tags: Art·Media Literacy·technology
More Puppet Shows
January 23, 2012 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized
Here are some more puppet shows to view. Good job boys and girls. Puppet Show 3 Puppet Show 4 Puppet Show 5 Pupper Show 6 Puppet Show 7 What do you think of our puppets, our voices, our storytelling?
Tags: Drama·ePearl·Fun·Media Literacy·Puppet Shows
A Folk Tale Theme
November 15, 2011 · 19 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade 2 has started a Folk Tale Theme. Our first story has been The Three Billy Goats Gruff which is also one of our ABRA stories. We have been practicing reading this story and recently recorded ourselves reading it in our digital portfolio (EPearl). Everyone did a fantastic job. I loved listening to everyone’s expressive [...]
Mo Willems Author Study
February 17, 2011 · 19 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade One has been reading Mo Willems’ books. We love all his characters -but our favorites are Pigeon, Piggy, Elephant, Knuffle Bunny, and Cat the Cat. We love how Mo Willems uses speech bubbles to give his characters their voice. His stories are great to practice our fluency and expression when we read aloud. After [...]
Tags: Drawing·Media Literacy·Reading
Creature ABC Voice Thread
November 30, 2010 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade 1 has been busy reading ABC books and practicing our beginning sounds. We immersed ourselves in all kinds of ABC books. We decided we wanted to make our own Animal ABC book. We went through the alphabet and brainstormed different animals that began with each letter /sound. We talked about what a page in [...]
Tags: Art·Literacy·Media Literacy·Reading
Flat Stanley’s Canadian Adventure
March 23, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Room 102 read Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. It is a story about a boy who has a book shelf fall on top of him and it makes him flat. It is easy for Stanley to go on adventures as he easily fits in an envelope and can travel quite inexpensively through the mail. The [...]
Tags: Media Literacy·Project·writing
Designing Book Covers
June 14, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Grade One has been busy designing book covers for some unfamiliar stories. I read aloud Abuella by Arthur Dorros the other day. The pictures are by Elissa Kleven. I had the cover of the book blocked with a piece of construction paper so that the children could design their own book cover. This is a [...]
What Kind of Car is This?
May 6, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Grade One describes cars in this Voicethread. We found copyright friendly photos of cars on Flickr using the group Creative Commons. There are many photos available here to use for projects. We just needed to give credit to the person who took the photo. We are learning to use adjectives – words that describe – [...]
Tags: Media Literacy·Voicethread
