Miss Hurley here again, and today I’d like to share with you
a project that the second graders have been working on. In library class, the students have been
studying the differences between fiction and nonfiction books. To practice this, the students created
fiction insects! Earlier this year they
did research projects on insects with their classroom teachers that involved
nonfiction information. So in library,
they were given the prompt: “You’ll
never see a…” and they had to finish the sentence by describing something that
their insect would never do, making it fiction.
Once they had created their sentence they had to illustrate it.
This project was designed to help them remember that fiction
is not real, as illustrated by the silly things that their fiction insects are
doing. After vacation, the final copies
will be hanging up above the fiction section of the library to remind them
where they can find fiction books.
But there’s more! Not
only are the insects on display in the library, but we also created a Photo
Story video for each class! Each student
got to record his/her own sentence for the video and the whole class worked
together for the final slide. This week
the project was finally complete and both classes got to watch their
videos. The kids came up with super
creative insects and it was so much fun watching the process. If you would like to see these awesome insects
you can watch the videos here:
Mrs. Gray's Class
Mrs. Pearce's Class
Oh my gosh! I can’t
believe how fast these six weeks have flown by!
Sadly, this is my last blog post as my time here at Ashaway has come to
an end. I have had such a wonderful
experience at this school and I am sure going to miss all of my new
friends!