Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Descriptive Detail Newscasts


We are currently reading short stories and reviewing their major elements: setting, plot, characterization, and theme. In our first story, "A Mother in Mannville," we focused on setting. The students picked out descriptive details that helped to make the setting come alive and incorporated them into a newscast. Each group wrote a script and performed their newscast for their classmates. Each story or feature had to relate to the literature story in some way. I think the kids did a great job! Check them out!

Monday, September 20, 2010

Working on Dog Booties

Here are the pictures I promised you of the students working on dog booties.  Hopefully, we'll see some of these in action when we watch some video clips of the Iditarod in March!


Ripping the Cordura to size
Cutting Velcro
Measuring the Cordura
Measuring the Velstretch