Journals All Day Long

I've just noticed that I am more apt to blog about a project before I do it with kids when I am very nervous about how it will turn out. I was very nervous about most of the projects that I wrote about in my last post.  Making beautiful drawing journals in one class period…

Making Summer Drawing Journals with Elementary Students

I will be heading up to the Adirondacks in the morning to work with students, helping them make drawing journals. I get thirty to forty-five minutes with each class. On Tuesday the students spend time with the talented, stupendous, creative scientist/artist Sheri Amsel, who will work with these same students, teaching them to draw nature.…

Folder Book for Making Books about Countries

This post is about giving anyone who is interested the specs on how to make the Countries Folder Book that I wrote about in my last post, Making Books about Countries for Third Graders. This book has many different pieces to it, which makes it a dynamic project, but requires that the teacher has a…

Making Books about Countries: a project with third graders

    Here is a project that debuted with third graders this past spring, as part of their Countries of the World unit. The teachers wanted the students to be able to present their work in a format that would help to motivate and reinforce reasearch.  We weren't able to get started on this project until mid-May,…