Marty McGuire

We read an amazing book this term called Marty McGuire.  It was about a class of third graders who were putting on the play 'The Frog Princess'.  We had a lot of discussion about characters, plot, problems and solutions and settings while we read.  It was a great book.

After we finished, we all worked together with the Cheetahs and wrote summaries for the 14 chapters in the book.  The process was quite difficult, but working with groups of 3 or 4 of us together really helped.  We talked together to come up with the main 'big' idea in the chapter and then listed some of the events that happened around this 'big' idea.

When that was done, we worked as a group to decide how we would represent the chapter ideas.
These are some of the ways we chose:
-draw a picture on Draw and Tell, and then record our voices to tell the information
-make puppets and then act out the chapter while someone records our acting
-draw pictures and then take a photo and print the ideas on the ipad
-pretend we are the characters and act out the chapter while someone films us
-use an ipad program that has puppets in it

We did a wonderful job with our ideas and representations!!  I am very proud of all the Huskies and Cheetahs and how they worked together to make this project turn out so well.  It was lots of fun too!

 ipad draw and record

 draw and take photo

 ipad and record

 ipad and typing

 ipad and recording

 ipad and printing ideas

 ipad drawing/record

 ipad drawing and record

 make puppets and act

 make puppets and act