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.

One Cool Friend- Talking Animal Facts

On Wednesday, groups of first and second graders created drawings using Scribble Press on the iPads which represented the animals in the book One Cool Friend, by Toni Buzzeo.  They used speech bubbles, like the book, to have the animal share information about themselves. Below are two slideshows featuring the work by the students and illustrating the research and creation process.

Grade One:

Grade Two

One Cool Friend - Wild Pets!

Using their bodies, faces, voices and imaginations, first graders acted out what it might be like to have a wild animal as a pet. They chose a seal, a cheetah, a leopard, a kangaroo, a lion and a dinosaur.
Inspired by the book One Cool Friend, by Toni Buzzeo, they gave their animals food and water, exercise and even baths. The video is in two parts below.

One Cool Friend - Drama

This group of second graders read and performed a readers theater skit adapted from the book One Cool Friend, by Toni Buzzeo.  After one only practice read-through, we filmed! I used iMovie to edit the film, and added some still photos from the practice. See the film below.

Sadly, we ran out of time for the filming last scene, but the students were proud of their work.
The script is from the website: http://www.tonibuzzeo.com/onecoolfriendreaderstheater.pdf

Infinity Voicethread

A group of first and second graders used iPads to create a picture representing infinity and then explained their ideas using VoiceThread. They thought about infinity chickens, infinity dogs, infinity ideas and infinity spiders making webs.

What is Infinity?

Mrs. Haddock's students create accordion books to illustrate their ideas about infinity.

Acting Out Infinity

Inspired by the book Infinity and Me, by Kate Hosford, students in first and second grade acted in a skit sharing the characters' thoughts about infinity and their own ideas.

Goldilocks and the... Scenes from Grade 1 Group

First graders tried out Toontastic as a tool to retell a scene from their own versions of Goldilocks.
They had fun choosing and editing the characters!

Goldilocks and the Three Mermaids

Goldilocks and The Three Pirates



Goldilocks and the Trucks
Goldilocks and the Monster

Goldilocks, the Pirates and the Shark

First Graders Create Dinosaur Flap Books

On Thursday first graders created books about dinosaurs - real or imagined!

Words in Motion: Acting Out Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

This group of first graders used their bodies and faces to act out the story. 

Check out the expressions!

Illustrators Inspired by Mo Willems

On Tuesday second graders created and illustrated their own dinosaur flap books.

Goldilocks and the Three...Somethings Stories Using Toontastic

Inspired by Mo Willem's Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs,  some second grade students created a scene (or a few scenes) from their own version of the story using the Toontastic App on iPads.  

View their work below!
Goldilocks and the Three Zombies
 Goldilocks and the Pirates and the SharkGolditurtle and the Three Musicians
Goldilocks and the Three Bunnies
Goldilocks and the Three Monsters

Readers Theater!

Readers Theater with Mo Willems' Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

We started with a "pass the face" activity around the circle to warm up our acting tools. Next, we read through the script and went over tricky words, and made choices about tone of voice. After another read-through, these second grade students performed for the camera!