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.