5th Grade - Books

I've been managing to get a lot of mileage out of my cup of sticks.  For this project, fifth graders pulled 3 sticks out of the cup with random words on them, and then were challenged to write a short story involving the random objects.  First, the stories were planned in their sketchbooks.  Then, the fifth graders wrote them out and illustrated them on small booklets that I had made for everyone.  This project makes me wish we had a few more weeks of school so we could finish these books up nice and tightly; as it stands now the books are mostly pencil, with only a few finishing in time to add some color to it.

Anyway, the result is a ton of very strange and extremely unique stories about evil pickles, possessed hula hoops, or skateboard superheroes.  Here are a few pages for a little peek.

3rd Grade - Comic Strips

The third graders came up with some very interesting ideas in this comic strip project.  First we talked about the three things that every story has:  a beginning, a middle, and an end.  In the beginning, the third graders introduced characters and a setting.  In the middle, the characters faced some sort of a problem, and in the end the problem is solved.  Each part of story had its own box in the comic strip.  Take a look at just a few of the creative examples we had.  Click on the image to enlarge it so you can read the stories that are a little hard to read when they're small.

3rd Grade - Comic Strips

3rd graders learned all about storytelling and the process of making comic strips in this project.  Each strip has 3 frames for a beginning, middle, and end, complete with characters, setting, and problems.  The students were encouraged to come up with their own stories and the result was a lot of very different and often very funny strips!  Here are only a few.  Click on the images to enlarge them so that they are easier to read.