Storybook
During this project we had to create a children's story book about effective communication that could not include people as characters, so I think that I grew in creativity because we really had to think about how to be abstract with our work but still make it make sense to third- fifth graders.
In Language Arts we were learning about what person/ point of view text is written in, like first person, second person, third person- omniscient, limited, or objective, in STEM Foundations we were learning about composition and medium control, while learning about composition we learned how to tell if a piece is static, dynamic, or radial, and in Wellness and Fitness we were learning about the 3 parts of health, and the health triangle, and how to keep an equal triangle.
Goals
W&F- we had to explain the concept of wellness and we had to explain how to use the techniques of conflict resolution.
SF- to create the images using watercolor and the composition techniques that we learned.
LA- to write a rhyming story and correctly use punctuation and third person- limited point of view. Limited is when the narratior onlt has the pount of view of one character.
In the images you can see my growth in medium control, because before in my drawings and paintings I would have put the ground, people in the middle on the ground, and a sun in the corner, but Ms. Whitman-Allen taught us how to make our images look mere professional. You can also see the different points-of-views for literature that we choose from, and their meanings.
My biggest challenge was probably getting along with my partner, I have a group of people that I will talk to, anyone who is out of that group I either don’t like, or I don’t talk to, and my partner was in that group.
Overcoming my challenge: to overcome my challenge I just kept thinking, soon this will all be over. Even when I had quiet days, Brayden would always be asking me for feedback or if he could do anything else while his painting was drying. One day he had just gotten an image off of the drying rack and asked me when I went to get images approved if I could take his too, so I did, Ms. WA told me that some of the edges could need some cleaning up. So I took Brayden's images and cleaned them up, and from that day forward that’s what we did. He would do the base of an image and I would clean it up by taking a smaller brush and steading my hand so that I could go over the lines very gently.
During this project I learned that no matter how much I strongly dislike a project I have to keep trying, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, the journey may be tough, and I have to keep driving. In my case the light at the end of the tunnel was the finished storybook.
Skills that will impact my future that I have learned during this project are learning to take more responsibility and pride of my work. Not be ashamed of it, but to be proud of it.
I grew in collaboration because I usually don’t work well with people very well, and I had to really try hard to work with my partner for this project. I now work better than I did before this project because I learned that working with others is better than working by yourself after all. Collaboration means working together with someone or a group to complete a common goal or task.
