THE GLOBAL MONSTER PROJECT

We had lots of fun working together to create our monster for the global monster project. We have sent our photo to Mr Smith at Monster Central to show everyone what our finished monster looks like, we have yet to give it a name. Do you have any suggestions? Leave a comment with your suggestion. All the year 2 children decided that it looked more like a boy than a girl and maybe it should have the word Aussie in its' name.



We spent last Friday morning(29 October) putting our monster together and this was the first time that most of us got to see what some of the other body parts looked like because the other 2 classes were making them.



Our teachers helped us put all the parts together and we were amazed at how it looked when it was all completed. We were very surprised that none of the parts had to be altered or changed in any way to fit together. That must mean we really thought about the part we were making and we collaborated really well with others who were making the other parts.



We made a onetruemedia to show who made the different parts and putting it all together!

Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com

OUR MONSTER PROJECT

Our monster for the Global Monster Project has finally been made. We were so excited this morning when we got to see all of the body parts made by 2M, 2BP as well as our own class. Mrs R, Mrs M, Mrs B, Mrs J, and Mr S with the help of Caitlin's mum, had to be very creative when we put all of our parts together to create what we think is the BEST MONSTER IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!!!!! We were very surprised at how well all the pieces were able to fit together without any alterations. Mr S set up the video and the Macbooks to record the construction process. Have a look at a snippet of what we did. Keep updated with all the other monsters by checking them out at www.smithclass.org/proj/Monsters/index.htm and click on Monsters 2010.

OUR MONSTER ACROSTIC POEM

In class we wrote a MONSTER acrostic poem. An acrostic poem is when you use the letters of the subject or topic of the poem to begin sentences to describe the topic. Mrs R showed us a picture of a monster and we came up with words (adjectives) to describe what it looked like and how it moved. We then chose the adjectives we liked the best to write our poem.

Mouth is like a dark cave.
Oval shaped, lime green body.
Noisy like a trumpeting elephant.
Stomps so hard the ground cracks.
Tiny, flat, yellow teeth with green gums.
Enormous, aqua coloured eye on his forehead.
Runs so fast it is a blur.

In pairs we chose a picture of a monster and wrote our own acrostic poems. You will start to these on our blogs and we have made a class Acrostic Poem book about monsters.

THE GLOBAL MONSTER PROJECT

Our grade 2 classes decided to sign up for the Global Monster Project. The project is about working collaboratively with other people around the world to build a monster. First we had to choose a body part that we wanted to describe, then we came up with 8-12 words to describe the part. We described the ears. Now all of the classes have to build the monster by HALLOWEEN (29 October). After we build the monster we will take a picture of it and send it to the monster project site. Everyone in the project votes for the best monster.

Our monster is going to live in our school library.

We are looking forward to participating in the Monster Project.