Make YOUR "Amazing Face"!

http://pickaface.net/create_avatar.html

1. Click on the link above
2. Click ENGLISH
3. Click CREATE AVATAR
4. Click on the GIRL or BOY face
5. Read the YELLOW BOX about the controls
1. "X" out of the yellow box when you have finished reading
6. Look under the YELLOW BAR
1. First circle - click to choose FACE SHAPE
1. Select a face shape  by clicking the shape to select it
2. Click on the color boxes to select a skin color 
2. Click the second circle for EYES
1. Click to select the eye shape
2. Click on the color boxes to select an eye color
3. Continue selecting facial features, hair, clothing, accessories & background
7. Click DOWNLOAD
1. Type YOUR NAME (FIRST & Last Name Initial only)
2. Avatar Name - SAME AS #1
3. Send to lanelibrary345@gmail.com
4. Click SUBMIT

DONE!!!!

LANE SUMMER READING 2013

AMAZING FACES by Lee Bennett Hopkins

This is our 2013 Summer Reading selection! Many amazing faces & amazing poems .

What do you see when you look in a mirror?

What do you see when you look out the window?

Faces that are like yours? Different from yours? 

How do these poems make you feel???

DIRECTIONS FOR GRADE 4 & 5 STUDENTS:

1. READ the book AMAZING FACES. THINK about each poem, each message, and how each one made you feel. Use sticky notes to mark special parts of the book if you find it helpful. 
2. Access this blog...you have already!
3. Click on the COMMENTS link below this post.  

4. CHOOSE ONE POEM that you felt a connection with

5. Start the comment with the POEM'S TITLE, & RESPOND to the following questions using PROOF from the text to support your answers. Complete sentences please, and no text speech! :-)
    a. Why did you choose this poem? What was your connection?
    b. How did this poem make you feel?
    c. Was this poem a mirror or a window? Both?
    d. How did the book Amazing Faces make you feel? Did you like it? Why or why not?
6. End the comment with your FIRST NAME (and the first letter of your last name if necessary) and GRADE
7. Under CHOOSE YOUR IDENTITY, click ANONYMOUS
8. Click PUBLISH YOUR COMMENT -  and you are FINISHED!!!

IN THE FALL, WE WILL FOLLOW-UP WITH ACTIVITIES 

THAT TIE IN TO THE BOOK AND IT'S POEMS. 

ENJOY!!!

OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES:

1. Write a poem about your own AMAZING FACE!
2. Draw a picture of your AMAZING FACE!
3. Create an avatar of your face using the "pickaface" website http://pickaface.net/create_avatar.html

Save it, print it out and bring it to the Library in September. Or, email me at this blog: linda_coviello@bedford.k12.ma.us
HAVE FUN!