Thursday, March 30, 2017

Announcements and Reminders: Have a fun Spring Break!                      Calendar:   March 28 -- Fieldtrip to Interview March 30 -- Begin Storyboards April 10 -- Storyboards due April 12 -- Lab to work on creating books April 14 -- Lab to work on creating books April 18  --Lab to work on creating books Share your document with Ms. Dorsey. Mrs. Hansen will print them in color.  They will be bound.  Let me know if you wish to do yours in a different way. _________ -- Share books in class.  _________  -- Deliver books to First Graders

Targets for Today:  I can prepare for the book-for-a-first-grader project.

Today’s  Agenda: Scribble:    Get started on this as soon as you sit down.  1. Write a short story beginning with the words, "If only. . . .  " Did someone say "beluga dog"?  Today:  Review about Creating Good Quality Books Do you have your storyboard paper, your rubric, and your interview paper?  Storyboard for Child’s Book by.docx Tips and Techniques for Books:  Google Docs  Share with Ms. Dorsey to have them printed.  text and fonts (for first graders)  Using Images     image search     types of images to use and avoid  hand-drawn collage  combination of images or cut-outs with hand-drawn About the Author   About the "About the Author" Steps in Writing  Plan (Prewriting) Draft Revise  Edit carefully  What are revision and editing, you ask, and why should I need to do it for a child's book?   Ask ____________________________________________________ I will take photos when we interview and when we deliver the books.  You could use the photos from the interview with your "About the Author." Storyboarding -- Outline your story --

If You Were Absent: See above.  Complete the scribble, and work on creating a storyboard for your children's book story. Storyboard for Child’s Book by.docx

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 And how about a beluga baby/ a whale baby?

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Fieldtrip to Legacy

Dress for the weather!

Get caught up on Scribbles/Composition Books
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Friday, March 24, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                            We will take our  walking fieldtrip to Legacy on March 28.  Be prepared for the weather.  Wear comfortable shoes.

Targets for Today:  I can prepare for the book-for-a-first-grader project.

Today’s  Agenda: We will take our  walking fieldtrip to Legacy on March 28.  Be prepared for the weather.  Wear comfortable shoes.   Scribble:    Get started on this as soon as you sit down.  Take one chocolate from the Frankfort Milk Chocolate container,  and one chocolate from the bags in the box.  Compare the two.  How are they the same, and how are they different.  Then -- Write something creative about chocolate or chocolate eggs or candy in general or eggs in general, or anything your imagination can springboard off from this prompt.  Is there a difference in Quality?  Review of story plot -- story mapping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPs6_0g8RHA Three Little Pigs  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c78fBl41OLc Pigs and Red Red Riding Hood  and the "Goldilocks"  Wolf Three Bears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atipwymJk5I to end Still need to create plot map for this.  We didn't yet watch this, but the wolf in the cartoons broke the fourth wall.  [Breaking the fourth wall- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3abgBQaiE] Save for another time --  Scribble:  March 28 and see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaibXFC-KhI

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Saturday, March 18, 2017

Monday, March 20, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                            We will take our  walking fieldtrip to Legacy on March 28.  Be prepared for the weather.  Wear comfortable shoes.

Targets for Today:  I can prepare for the book-for-a-first-grader project.

Today’s  Agenda: Practice Interviewing -- and Get to Know Each Other Better   Children's story interview questions.doc Tips and Techniques for Books    We will cover these over the next class times.  Google Docs  Share with Ms. Dorsey to have them printed.  text and fonts (for first graders)  Using Images     image search     types of images to use and avoid  hand-drawn collage  combination of images or cut-outs with hand-drawn story  plot map  About the Author   About the "About the Author" Steps in Writing  Plan (Prewriting) Draft Revise  Edit carefully  What are revision and editing, you ask, and why should I need to do it for a child's book?   Ask ____________________________________________________ I will take photos when we interview and when we deliver the books.  You could use the photos from the interview with your "About the Author."

If You Were Absent:

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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                            We will take our  walking fieldtrip to Legacy on March 28.  Be prepared for the weather.  Wear comfortable shoes.

Targets for Today:  I can prepare for the book-for-a-first-grader project.

Today’s  Agenda: We will take our  walking fieldtrip to Legacy on March 28.  Be prepared for the weather.  Wear comfortable shoes.   Scribble:    Get started on this as soon as you sit down.  You're lying in bed, almost asleep, and you hear a knock on your window.. . .  Last time you  did Practice Interviewing -- and Get to Know Each Other Better   Children's story interview questions.doc Did you finish that?  Did you write your descriptions?  Today:   Learn about making quality books.  Calendar:   March 28 -- Fieldtrip to Interview March 30 -- Begin Storyboards April 10 -- Storyboards due April 12 -- Lab to work on creating books April 14 -- Lab to work on creating books April 18  --Lab to work on creating books Share your document with Ms. Dorsey. Mrs. Hansen will print them in color.  They will be bound.  Let me know if you wish to do yours in a different way. _________ -- Share books in class.  _________  -- Deliver books to First Graders  Tips and Techniques for Books    We will cover these over the next class times.  Google Docs  Share with Ms. Dorsey to have them printed.  text and fonts (for first graders)  Using Images     image search     types of images to use and avoid  hand-drawn collage  combination of images or cut-outs with hand-drawn About the Author   About the "About the Author" Steps in Writing  Plan (Prewriting) Draft Revise  Edit carefully  What are revision and editing, you ask, and why should I need to do it for a child's book?   Ask ____________________________________________________ I will take photos when we interview and when we deliver the books.  You could use the photos from the interview with your "About the Author."  We read Hip, Hip, Hooray, for Annie McRae!  by Brad Wilcox Another Scribble:

If You Were Absent:

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Monday, March 20, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                            We will take our  walking fieldtrip to Legacy on March 28.  Be prepared for the weather.  Wear comfortable shoes.

Targets for Today:  I can prepare for the book-for-a-first-grader project.

Today’s  Agenda: Four prompts -- Animal Googly Eyes  Practice Interviewing -- and Get to Know Each Other Better   Children's story interview questions.doc Tips and Techniques for Books    We will cover these over the next class times.  Google Docs  Share with Ms. Dorsey to have them printed.  text and fonts (for first graders)  Using Images     image search     types of images to use and avoid  hand-drawn collage  combination of images or cut-outs with hand-drawn story  plot map  About the Author   About the "About the Author" Steps in Writing  Plan (Prewriting) Draft Revise  Edit carefully  What are revision and editing, you ask, and why should I need to do it for a child's book?   Ask ____________________________________________________ I will take photos when we interview and when we deliver the books.  You could use the photos from the interview with your "About the Author."

If You Were Absent:

Vocabulary:

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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                           We will take our  first Fieldtrip to Legacy on March 28.   We've extended time again for presentations and artistic representations.  Today, however, is the very last day of the term, so this is absolutely the last day to do them.

Targets for Today: Write!

Today’s  Agenda: Scribbles: March 16:  Andy B and Alexis C and Ashley and Amitee and Melissa Music:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhP3J0j9JmY Tulips Presentations: Artistic Representations and Frozen Tableau Author Study: --

If You Were Absent:

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