The video below is the result of a collaboraiton between our class and two grade 7 students.

Earlier in the year, we had a workshop with author/illustrator, Georgia Graham.

http://www.georgiagraham.com/

Then, two grade 7 students wrote the text for the story, Peep Finds her Mommy.


We read the text, and with the help of our smartboard, decided together how to divide it into 23 pages.

Each grade 2 student was responsible for illustrating one page of text.

Before we could begin our illustrations, we needed to decide what the characters would look like. We wanted them to look similar, even though they would be drawn by many different illustrators. All students chose a character/characters to draw. Once all the drawing were posted, we decided which characters looked like they belonged together in the same story.

Then each student drew a rough copy of his/her page, using the posted character prototypes as a guide.

The last step was to create the final designs using sharpie and watercolor.

In the video, each student read the page that he/she illustrated in the book.

I am just learning how to use the video editing software (imovie) and this was my first attempt.

Enjoy our book!

We have officially launched out new Unit of Inquiry under the
organizing theme: How We Share the Planet

The central idea of this inquiry is: Water sustains all life on the planet and must be shared.

We have been learning about the water cycle and about earth's water supply. All the water we have is all the water we have ever had. It has been interesting to imagine the journey of a single drop of water through place and time.

Ask your children if they can explain the water cycle, and explain evaporation, condensation and precipitation.

Today we got a sneak peek into our next unit of inquiry (more on that later). The Wastewater puppet show came right to our classroom! We learned all about where our drinking water in Edmonton comes from, and the importance of keeping non-biodegradeable things out of our sewer system.