The class worked in collaboration with Craig Cardiff, Canadian singer and songwriter, and his company Song Collab Studio, to animate and voice their book, The Story of Rosa Parks. <\/p>\n
The writing portion of the book was student-led, based on questions and discussions during planning sessions with the students, Pleasant Corners Public School (PCPS) teacher Stacy Schwendemann, Early Childhood Educator Anna Martin and Cardiff\u2019s Song Collab Studio used hand-drawn student artwork, along with digitally-drawn illustrations and student narration to complete the digital storybook. <\/p>\n
The class had a final day of voice recording February 22, took part in a sing-along with Cardiff, and had serious discussions about kindness, treatment of others, and taking action on things that everyone can control versus what they can\u2019t. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis class has been working very hard and it makes me so happy to get the privilege of sharing their hard work,\u201d said Schwendemann. <\/p>\n
The class was joined by UCDSB Vice-Chair Corina Parisien and Ottawa Centre MPP Joel Harden (who grew up in Vankleek Hill) for the final day of voice recording and these discussions. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis real-world learning opportunity is a unique and special project,\u201d said PCPS Principal Laura Kirby. \u201cValuable life lessons were discussed, and they have a digital version of a story as a reminder.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI am very proud of this group of young learners,\u201d said Parisien. \u201cThey are touching on many of the UCDSB Character Always traits: Responsibility, Fairness, Respect, Caring, Honesty, Generosity, Empathy, Courage, Perseverance, and Resiliency.\u201d <\/p>\n
The PCPS Kindergarten class Story of Rosa Parks<\/em> is available to view on the UCDSB YouTube channel<\/a> at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VpWiWv0de7M&feature=youtu.be.https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VpWiWv0de7M&feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pleasant Corners Public School Kindergarten students are learning about Rosa Parks for Black History Month and used the opportunity to write, illustrate and narrate a digital storybook as a class project. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"acf":[],"featured_media_global":[],"yoast_head":"\n