Friday, January 23, 2009

Mrs. Mackay 's Class Personal Narratives

I have had a lot of fun working at Altara Elementary with Mrs. Mackay's 6th grade class on writing projects. Each student in the class wrote a personal narrative in a program called Pages. Pages is one of the three programs in the iWorks suite. The students had fun choosing a template. There are so many beautiful looking templates, it was hard for some kids to choose.
We then printed out the narratives on white cardstock and bound them into a book using the Cerlox binder. the book looked great!

The next week we recorded the narratives in GarageBand. The students burned two CD's. One to take home and another to tape to the back of their personal narrative in the book. The book will be kept in the classroom. Students will be able to listen to their peers' narratives whenever they have free time.



Mrs. Mackay said that her students were so excited to do this project. They liked writing the story in Pages. The loved recording their narrative. They were super excited to be able to take a CD home for their family to listen to their project.

Mrs. Mackay has a wonderful group of students. I enjoy working with students who are so energetic, nice, and respectful. Great job Mrs. Mackay's 6th Grade Class!

3 comments:

Alanna said...

I love the idea of doing a CD with their narratives! I think I will have to do this with my class. We've worked with pages before and LOVE that program.

mrsprob said...

This sounds like a fun project. You come up with some cool projects.

How to Earn Points said...

I like the combinations of pages and garageband. Keep up with your good ideas!