There was so much fun and learning happening during the 2nd grade crankie-making week! A crankie is an old fashioned storytelling device. Its simple design is mesmerizing because it uses light, imagery, and storytelling... kind of like a tv! To write our story, the kids started by brainstorming settings. I thought that they would vote on one setting, but they came up with the awesome idea for each student to draw their own setting and have a main character journey through each one.
Here is what the crankie looks like when it's almost finished.
To pick the main character of our crankie story, each student drew and named a character. We hung them up on the board and the kids voted. Their idea: you can't vote for yourself!
Sebastian votes: democracy in action!
Here is the winning character: Cave Monster!
Scroll down for some of the other awesome character ideas.
Moses and Noah took on the task of decorating the outside of the crankie.
Tessa shows her beautiful piece of the scroll.
This was really cool. We hung up all of the scroll pieces in a storyboard fashion and each student wrote a sentence for their piece of the story. It was kind of dreamy seeing the kids give one another ideas for their story pieces.
Each student copied his or her own sentence from the storyboard.
Decorating the outside of the crankie box.
You can go visit the 2nd grade crankie and see their story "Cave Monster's Adventure" at the Fall Arts Festival at the Guadalupe Gym from Friday, 9/21-9/30!
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