Our First Classroom Book
Grade Levels: K - 8
Objectives
- Students will share an experience from their summer vacations with fellow classmates by drawing and writing about their experiences.
- Students will compile their completed works into a class book.
- Students will begin to feel a sense of classroom community.
Materials
- Paper (either white copy paper or construction paper)
- Pencils
- Art media
- A way to publish the student's book (binding machine, stapler, yarn, rings, etc.)
Procedures
- Have students brainstorm about something fun, exciting, or memorable they did over the summer vacation.
- On construction paper (preferably white) or copy paper, students draw a picture which describes their favorite summer vacation experience. The students should add color to and write a few sentences on the drawing.
- When students are finished collect the pieces and place them inside two additional pieces of construction paper.
- As a class, decide on a title for your first class book and how to decorate the cover. Decide what to call the class, who "the author" shall be.
- Bind your new book together. Laminating the cover helps preserve the life of your book, as well.
- Enjoy the book. Read it to the class and place it in your classroom library to be checked out later and re-read.
