Saturday, August 29, 2009

Done with the beach and back to the Class!

Hello this is Priscilla McCullough reporting on what we did in class today.

It's time to start working on our class book!



Today we chose the creatures we are going to write about.
We chose numbers out of the fishbowl. The numbers are coordinated to a picture of an organism that we will be writing about. Christina is choosing her number, she selected number seven which turned out to be Ulva.



Here are some pictures of students' selected photos. All of our photo assignments will be published in our seashore guide along with information about the organism. Information will contain common and scientific name, size and range as well as interesting facts.





Now that they have their assignment they must find the scientific name for their sea life as well as write a short paragraph on what their sea life is like.



The picture to the right is a picture of a seagull and the one to the left are snails.




These girls are putting their minds together to come up with some great ideas for our book!




After we chose our sea life, we went through books and wrote down things we liked and disliked about the layouts of the books.



We took into consideration the amount of information, lighting on pictures, and how big or small the pictures were.




We liked that the information was easy to read and right next to the picture.
Mr. Ashley gave us some advice on how we should create the book too.
When you make a book you have to take into thought your own experiences on when you you've looked at in previous books and if you had to change some things what would they be?
Also, how long your information is, you don't want it too long.




They are showing off the cover and explaining their ideas. We decided as a class that an interesting cover would be ideal.



It's their turn to tell the class what they think of the book.

In our class assignments we don't want our book to be completly boring so Mr. Ashley thought of a fun way to make things more exciting. We could name the phyllum our creatures are in. Also, research and find myths or folk songs about them. In additon to the two above, we could use personal experiences on the sea life we chose. Finally we could tie our short essay together by taking a picture of our sea life.

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