We had the wonderful opportunity to visit with local author Sarah Ellis at the public library. Sarah Ellis has written over twenty-five books for young readers and has won many honours, including the Governor General’s Award. During her talk, Sarah shared how she gets ideas for her stories, many of which are memories from her childhood. She also gets ideas from stories she’s heard, dreams, newspaper articles and strange experiences. We loved hearing her share how this combination of ideas is what leads to her draft (and that she uses a pen and paper to write!) and then the final story. At the end of her talk, Sarah Ellis gave us each a Dodger Boy bookmark to take home. A big thank you to Sarah Ellis and to the local library. Nothing says fall like scarecrows, so we started a fall art activity involving scarecrows and oil pastels. We worked together as a class to come up with the criteria. After brainstorming, we narrowed it down to three: the art needs to take up the majority of the page, we need to use a minimum of 4 bold colours and we need to outline the art. We were excited to get started – and to give our scarecrows some personality! A great week of learning in divisions 6 & 7 :)
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