Personal Narrative Publishing Celebration

We recently finished our writing unit on narrative stories, or stories from our lives.   We continued to focus on telling our stories through our illustrations, but we stretched our story over several pages to create books.  We used "The Story Hand" to be certain our stories included our characters, the setting, three details, and our feelings.  We also studied the work of other authors and illustrators while we walked in their footsteps to help make our writing com alive.  Some of the techniques we studied included the illustrator's point of view and speech bubbles.  Books have already been sent home.  I hope you enjoyed your little author's hard work!

Below are some pictures of students sharing during our Publishing Celebration!

And of course they always want to take a silly picture!!

"Hoppy" Easter!

I know that Easter seems like ages ago, but we created these bunnies hiding in the grass to get us ready to celebrate.  I meant to get them posted because students did such a fabulous job on them.  First, we drew everything with pencil and traced our lines with black crayon.  Then students painted the white bunny and green grass.  After the paint dried, they needed to try to find their lines again to trace over.  This was a little tricky! I love the final product!