Updates: 2nd Grade Comics and 3rd Grade Collages

Over the past few weeks, the 2nd and 3rd graders have been hard at work on their projects.

The 2nd graders began their autobiographical comics around the beginning of the semester, and they are still going! This was a very complex and time-consuming process - not only did the students plan everything out in their sketchbooks, but they had to consider how they would show their characters' emotions, establish a setting, convey thoughts, and include dialogue. The quality in these comics is simply outstanding!

Meanwhile, the 3rd graders have been creating collages inspired by the photographs of Abelardo Morell, whose works convey a transformation of what he calls "the known world." To transform photographs of their own known worlds, students have been finding unusual (and sometimes very silly) pictures in magazines to collage onto their original image. Here are a few photos!