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Children’s author visits students
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Students used different color and designed paper to create a paper collage as part of an activity that Dar Hosta James prepared for them on April 12.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Students at Dobbins Elementary participated in the activity that Dar Hosta James, an author and illustrator, prepared for them during her visit on April 12.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Students cut different shapes out of paper to create a paper collage of the illiteration sentence they created during Dar Hosta James' visit to Dobbins on April 12.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Dobbins students created an illiterative sentence and a paper collage after listening to a presentation by author and illustrator, Dar Hosta James, on April 12.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
Dar Hosta James visited Dobbins Elementary on April 11 and 12.
James, an author and illustrator, spoke to the students of Dobbins Elementary and provided them with an activity.
The students in third grade did “squish squash poetry books” and the students in fourth grade did “alliteration is always awesome.”
Students raffle winners had the opportunity to eat lunch with James.
“If you can reinforce anything they’re doing in their classroom, then that makes everyone happy,” said James.
On April 11, James gave a school-wide assembly before a writing workshop. The workshop on April 11, with the third-grade students, consisted of a six-page, handmade poetry book.
The alliteration activity the students in fourth grade created consisted of coming up with nouns, verbs and adjectives to create an alliterative sentence.
After the students made their sentences, they used different colored and patterned construction paper to form a paper collage to go with their sentences.
“If they don’t have fun, then I shouldn’t be here. It should always be fun,” said James.