You'll notice that this week there are lots of blog posts about work that we are doing for our local bookstore - Yellow Book Road. This is because we are in the middle of a project about how we can help the bookstore. This blog post is all about the animals that we are making to decorate the book boxes that we are making to go in the store.
We are helping Yellow book Road because they do so much for local schools and kids - from organizing author talks to giving us expert advice when we go in there. They have even agreed to let us sell a book that we are writing in the store! They are so nice that they even gave us books to read when we went to interview them about being an independent bookstore.
On a tuesday afternoon, after lunch, we saw a ton of newspaper and we didn’t know what was going on! When everyone got to the rug, Ms. Chown told us we were doing our first draft of our animal models, everyone shouted with joy. Finally! We have been looking forward to this since we designed the project.
We are helping Yellow book Road because they do so much for local schools and kids - from organizing author talks to giving us expert advice when we go in there. They have even agreed to let us sell a book that we are writing in the store! They are so nice that they even gave us books to read when we went to interview them about being an independent bookstore.
On a tuesday afternoon, after lunch, we saw a ton of newspaper and we didn’t know what was going on! When everyone got to the rug, Ms. Chown told us we were doing our first draft of our animal models, everyone shouted with joy. Finally! We have been looking forward to this since we designed the project.
"I was feeling glad about doing out doing our models ever since Ms. Chown told us about it."
"Hi my name is Grady and the person that was before me was Garrett. When Ms Chown told me that we would be starting on the models, I was super happy and excited because I have been waiting for this for a couple months while we wrote our stories."
After everyone stopped yelling with joy we started. If someone had the same animal as us we could work together. Garrett and I both had chosen snakes to write about so we decided to work together. Our snakes are not the same species but we still did it together - it was very fun.
After everyone stopped yelling with joy we started. If someone had the same animal as us we could work together. Garrett and I both had chosen snakes to write about so we decided to work together. Our snakes are not the same species but we still did it together - it was very fun.
First Garrett and I decided a plan for our work. I would get the tape and Garrett would roll the newspaper and we both would shape the body. We also had pictures so that we could look at the picture and see what the body and head looked like. But some people had animals that had legs so they had even more things to think about!
As well as making animal book boxes, we have also written book reviews to go in Yellow Book Road. You can read about this in the blog post below by Katherine and Emilia. We have also been writing animal stories to go with our animal models. You can read about this in another blog post (by Thaison and Quinn). Ms. Ann, the store owner of the store gave us critique on our book reviews but she hasn't seen our stories yet!
As well as making animal book boxes, we have also written book reviews to go in Yellow Book Road. You can read about this in the blog post below by Katherine and Emilia. We have also been writing animal stories to go with our animal models. You can read about this in another blog post (by Thaison and Quinn). Ms. Ann, the store owner of the store gave us critique on our book reviews but she hasn't seen our stories yet!