MEMORY POP-UP BOOK PROJECT for FAMILIES with PS22Q.7

 



MEMORY POP-UP BOOK PROJECT for FAMILIES With PS22Q grades 2-5

June 8, 2021


It was great to see familiar faces today, Andy, Chloe, Dionela, Dianella and Lilia. Spica and I want to give a big shout out to our support teachers, Ms. Courtney Conti and Ms. Salma Din - thank you for being there.

 

As a result of the COVID pandemic we have all spent a lot of time looking out our windows. Sometimes we can imagine what might be and at other times, it just helps to pass the day. We asked our students to close their eyes and imagine what they might see outside their window, either real or imaginary. Upon opening their eyes each one mimed what they saw. Andy mimed rain or a storm, Lilia a rainbow and Chloe a dog. Ms. Conti joined in the fun and mimed a bunny she saw in her backyard. 

 

We refreshed the technique learnt last week, of how to make the V Fold stand after selecting a color and folding the Base page. For this page, the students made 2 V Fold stands and glued them into place. The vocabulary taught this week is foreground and background and we shared a sample page of windows on the front V Fold stand through which you could see trees on the back V Fold stand, thus creating a 3D effect. 

 

Students chose colored construction paper for their windows, folded and cut it to size. They drew the frames onto their two windows. Andy told us a neat way to cut out the window frames by folding the paper and Spica demonstrated how to pierce the center of the paper with the tip of your scissors then cut. Dionela made a green window frame and carefully cut out purple curtains who she decorated with a star pattern. This is her parent’s window, and she will make her window after class. Lilia’s window frame was blue, and Chloe designed a smaller window at the top and a larger one on the bottom. Andy cut out four windowpanes for one window which has a blue frame. The other window, with a pink frame, he will complete later. 

 

Now the fun part was to create the background of what each child saw through their window. They learned an effective method of creating a basic shape, which fits snugly within the closed page attached to the back V Fold stand. They used this shape to draw or collage a background. Chloe drew a castle complete with turrets and collaged the windows. After our class she shared the actual view through her window which was of a real castle! Dionela drew the playground she sees through her window which has monkey bars, a swing set, a slide and a rock-climbing wall. Lilia chose to collage her background, filling it with bright colors cut into geometric shapes creating trees and undergrowth. 

 

Our students certainly don’t lack creativity, enthusiastically embracing new ideas and are quick to learn different techniques.

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