On Tuesday, February 11th, Room 15 had an exotic exhibition at Yellow Book Road. But we're going to start this diary the day before.
I was in the most messiest classroom in the world and it was in my footsteps (I am always very messy). There was kids running around asking urgently “where is the paint?” The classroom was completely white, but most of all the bookcases were being finished. It was an extraordinary and very messy day [but a very fun one]. You are also probably wondering how this all started, well let me tell you.
It was at Yellow Book Road an independent bookstore where we meet Jeff Kinney the author of Diary of a wimpy kid. He also said “I love independent bookstores” which got us thinking about this project. We started to learn about independent bookstores and we visited Yellow Book Road to find out more. We decided to write stories about animals (we knew that most kids love animals so we knew that our animal stories, models and bookcases would tempt people into the bookstore).
We started researching about our animals. We planned what we wanted our story to be about then one night Ms. Chown thought of a brilliant idea [it was not very brilliant to us but to her it was]. She walked into school with a jump in her step and simply said “you guys are going to write a story today today!”
My jaw dropped down that was impossible! But I was up to it. We wrote and wrote and many of us got more than we thought possible.
After Ms. Chown got her mind back together, she also knew it was impossible to write a story in a day. At least we got good brain food - Joe Joes and oranges! We had to keep working on writing and editing and reading each others and cutting down sections that might be confusing.
After we finally finished our amazing stories, we had critique and author meetings. Then they were ready to be published.
One thing was missing though. It was two days before our exhibition and it was our animal models. We had already plastered them we just needed to paint. We thought this was the easiest part because we did not have to cut our hands with deadly wire (like we did when we were making the models) but sadly acrylic paint stains.
When these amazing animals were done, we loaded them into Ms. Lancaster's car. She drove them and we all walked off to Yellow Book Road. It was the best and most fun exhibition I have ever done.
By Delanie Tasto
PS NOTE FROM MS. CHOWN
Delanie - although I love your dramatic writing, I do want to set the record straight.
I knew that you would not be able to write a story in a day! Our afternoon of writing was for us to get the main outline of the story written. The work we did on it afterwards was to improve it.
I was in the most messiest classroom in the world and it was in my footsteps (I am always very messy). There was kids running around asking urgently “where is the paint?” The classroom was completely white, but most of all the bookcases were being finished. It was an extraordinary and very messy day [but a very fun one]. You are also probably wondering how this all started, well let me tell you.
It was at Yellow Book Road an independent bookstore where we meet Jeff Kinney the author of Diary of a wimpy kid. He also said “I love independent bookstores” which got us thinking about this project. We started to learn about independent bookstores and we visited Yellow Book Road to find out more. We decided to write stories about animals (we knew that most kids love animals so we knew that our animal stories, models and bookcases would tempt people into the bookstore).
We started researching about our animals. We planned what we wanted our story to be about then one night Ms. Chown thought of a brilliant idea [it was not very brilliant to us but to her it was]. She walked into school with a jump in her step and simply said “you guys are going to write a story today today!”
My jaw dropped down that was impossible! But I was up to it. We wrote and wrote and many of us got more than we thought possible.
After Ms. Chown got her mind back together, she also knew it was impossible to write a story in a day. At least we got good brain food - Joe Joes and oranges! We had to keep working on writing and editing and reading each others and cutting down sections that might be confusing.
After we finally finished our amazing stories, we had critique and author meetings. Then they were ready to be published.
One thing was missing though. It was two days before our exhibition and it was our animal models. We had already plastered them we just needed to paint. We thought this was the easiest part because we did not have to cut our hands with deadly wire (like we did when we were making the models) but sadly acrylic paint stains.
When these amazing animals were done, we loaded them into Ms. Lancaster's car. She drove them and we all walked off to Yellow Book Road. It was the best and most fun exhibition I have ever done.
By Delanie Tasto
PS NOTE FROM MS. CHOWN
Delanie - although I love your dramatic writing, I do want to set the record straight.
I knew that you would not be able to write a story in a day! Our afternoon of writing was for us to get the main outline of the story written. The work we did on it afterwards was to improve it.