Prep time: 0 mins
Activity time: 30 mins
Today Zach and Elijah became authors. My kids are big fans of Cars and Cars 2, and all things race cars. As usual, our Saturday morning started at 6:30, and the kids were clamoring to watch TV (Little Einsteins and the recreated Electric Company from Netflix were the two most frequent requests). Rather than indulge my little TV-philes, I wanted to tickle their storytelling abilities and compose a story of our own together.
Today Zach and Elijah became authors. My kids are big fans of Cars and Cars 2, and all things race cars. As usual, our Saturday morning started at 6:30, and the kids were clamoring to watch TV (Little Einsteins and the recreated Electric Company from Netflix were the two most frequent requests). Rather than indulge my little TV-philes, I wanted to tickle their storytelling abilities and compose a story of our own together.
PowerPoint actually lends itself quite nicely for instant publishing. It’s very easy to add text and insert pictures and we can print out our book when we’re done. I asked the kids to first pick a topic for our book. They chose race cars (big shocker). We went online and did an image search on “race cars” for inspiration. The boys took turns choosing cars to look at and use. We decided the story would be about this super cool Ferrari race car we found. Then I asked Zach and Elijah questions to help get some basic character names and plot. Zach got a little fixated on the letter F and our story was about Fifi the Ferrari, who on a freezing Friday in February lost his fuel injector.
 |
| Some sample pages from our book |
The boys crafted the story (Zach did most of the heavy lifting and Elijah contributed where he could) and I typed. Our book is still a work in progress (we hit a 30-minute attention span limit), and we’re really happy with what we have so far!
No comments:
Post a Comment