“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” Shel Silverstein

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Our Family Book

Earlier in the year we did a unit on families where we learned about different kinds of families, families in different places and shared about our own families. After reading Todd Parr's Family Book we were inspired to create a class book about our own families. Instead of putting our book on paper we decided to use technology to create a book that could be shared in a more interactive way. We used Parr's unique illustration techniques as a model and created our own illustrations using the Paint program. Then we created text to go with the illustration and narrated the text using a voice thread program. We hope that you enjoy our book.
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4 comments:

  1. Tasha LehmanMay 23, 2011 at 6:12 AM

    That is so precious! I love hearing all of their sweet voices reading the book. Love it, thanks so much!

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  2. Mrs. CoteMay 29, 2011 at 3:49 PM

    Wow! The students' drawings are bright, colorful and full of details. I love hearing each one tell about their family activity.

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  3. GioJune 1, 2011 at 12:22 PM

    What a wonderful book! Listening to them talking about their own work and looking at their wonderful pictures makes this book priceless. I wish I could somehow keep a copy of it - is this possible?
    Thank you very much for putting this together.

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  4. About UsJune 3, 2011 at 4:11 PM

    I may be able to put it on a disk somehow. I will ask the tech "experts" and get back to you. :)

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