Trading Cards

Where can you find...

• A baseball play with one eye?  
• A champion soccer-playing chimp?
• An Australian fish who wins swim races?         

...Here!

Students created sports trading cards for imagined athletes, and some of the Acerra brothers from
Brothers at Bat. They drew an image on the iPad, and used it with the Trading Card app from ReadWriteThink.org. Watch the slideshow below to see some of their work.

More Scenes from Brothers at Bat

First and second grade students acted out scenes from the book Brothers at Bat, by Audrey Vernick.
     First, students went through the book and decided which scenes to act out, then they figured out how to represent the scene with their movement and expressions.  After a practice run, we filmed using an iPads. The students helped decide the music and order of the scenes for the movie as I was editing the clips using iMovie.
See the scenes below!

 Grade 2

Grade 1

Brothers at Bat Books

After reading about the Acera family, who had enough brothers to form their own 
     baseball team, students in Ms. Sutlive's and Ms. Epstein's classes 
created books about what they like to do with their families.

Trading Cards - Brothers at Bat

In the book, Anthony "Poser" Accera stood at the plate "as if his baseball-card photo" was being taken. After looking at old and new base-ball and other sports trading cards, students used a ReadWriteThink.org app for the iPad to make their own trading cards.

"Brothers at Bat" Books

After reading "Brothers at Bat" students in Ms. Bouvier's and Mrs. Scrodin's classes 

created books about what they like to do with their families.

Brothers at Bat Scenes

This week, two groups of students imagined themselves as the characters in Brothers at Bat: the True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team, by Audrey Vernick and illustrated by Steven Salerno, as they acted out scenes from this book.

Second grade students








These first grade students chose the music to accompany their scenes, below.

After studying the illustrations drawn by David Small in One Cool Friend,

students from Ms.Sutlive’s  &  Ms. Epstein’s classes used pen & ink, and watercolors

to draw an animal friend that they would like to bring home.