This week 4R were asked had a look at our section of this year’s yearbook. We checked the spelling of our names, made sure everyone was included in the images and noted a big, empty white space in the print proof, right under our class picture. What’s that all about?
This was the space for text. A half page to somehow come to grips with a year of learning, growing and exploring together. We had a range of ideas. Some suggested things they’d seen in other yearbooks, a word cloud of important ideas, a collectively composed poem, important quotes from books we’d read, samples of writing or other work… Or, the year in headlines.
With this situation, we were decided. If we were writing headlines about the year in 4R, what would they say? The class decided that rather than focusing on the things that might be considered the most important events of the year, they would prefer to think about headlines on subjects that would be unique to 4R.
A list began to build: Having our own blog, designing our own classroom, Genius Hour and… Parties! We explored a few newspaper generators to see how we could design a stack of papers to share some of the things that make us different.
After a quick process, we were ready to publish!
This is a great idea! A wonderful and unique way to think about what makes 4R special, all the learning this year, and all rolled into a writing project. Really nice! By the way, did you have fun at your party? Hope it was a fun surprise.