Once a week I have been spending some time with the Grade 3/4 students looking at picture books. Each session I have read the book aloud and then they have completed an activity based on ideas or artwork in that story. It has been wonderful to share some of my favourite texts with them and I thought I would share the results of this week’s session.
These are a few pages from books the students made based on Anthony Browne’s How Do You Feel? Anthony Browne is an incredible force in children’s literature and we have already looked at a couple of his books in these sessions. I chose this book because it offers such great opportunities to discuss emotions. Feelings can be such a hard thing to define, yet Browne’s clever use of colour, space, scale and facial expressions make it so easy for students to grasp ideas like guilt, curiosity and courage.
We analysed his drawings as a group and I was astounded by how much information the students were able to obtain from the character’s body language or Browne’s framing. Even costume gave us clues as to what it means to have this feeling.
The students were very inspired and as you can see they cleverly used some of Browne’s fantastic devices in their own How Do You Feel books.
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