Tuesday, January 25, 2011

A Visit with Some Writing Friends from 4-Chertok

Fourth graders finished a unit on writing folktales and First graders in my class finished writing fairy tales. So, we decided to get the two classes together to share our stories today. My kids learned what a moral was and I think the fourth graders were entertained by our stories of magic and royalty set "Once Upon a Time" or "Long, long ago..."














Sunday, January 23, 2011

Check out our Digital Books

It is official... we have published our list/pattern books on our class web page. The kids typed their stories, imported clip art to their iPhoto libraries, and then imported the pictures into their Keynote presentations. I exported them as PowerPoints and loaded them up to our Google site.

Now we are working on creating print and digital innovations of Mo Willems' Pigeon and Elephant & Piggie books. What would you have Pigeon say?