The students in Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade were so excited to welcome author and illustrator, David Biedrzycki to OMS on Tuesday. To prepare for his visit, students loved reading and creating projects related to his Monarch Award winning picture book, Breaking News: Bear Alert and his Me and My Dragon series books.
Mr. Biedrzycki made a quick appearance on morning announcements and then entertained the student audience in the Commons. He shared his techniques for recording story ideas in his journal. One example that Mr. Biedrzycki shared was related to his recent trip to Africa. When he was awakened by an elephant pulling a tree out of the ground with its trunk, he decided to create a strong elephant matriarch character to put into a new book. Students loved learning how to use a drawing app on the iPad to create realistic-looking 3-dimensional art work. He drew a beetle family for us in order to demonstrate the creation of artwork for a book.
After his whole-group presentation, Mr. Biedrzycki joined Mrs. Mueller's second-grade class for a small group lesson. He shared one of his brand new books with them. He also led them in practicing their drawing of a beetle and getting started on story ideas. Several students excitedly declared that Mr. Biedrzycki had inspired them to become authors and illustrators!
To see more photos and a video of the event, please follow this link to the OMS LMC webpage.
