{"id":286,"date":"2019-02-18T17:58:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/?p=286"},"modified":"2019-05-03T04:18:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T04:18:06","slug":"sunday-funnies-good-for-everyday-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/2019\/02\/18\/sunday-funnies-good-for-everyday-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Begbie Buzz – What are Comic Strips?"},"content":{"rendered":"

OUR “SUNDAY FUNNIES” – GOOD FOR EVERYDAY OF THE WEEK!<\/span><\/p>\n

As a class, we revisited features that are often found in newspapers.<\/p>\n

As soon as someone mentioned comic strips, the students all declared that learning to cartoon would be our next project for our newspaper blog. \u00a0Most of the kids love to draw, and given that a comic strip is just a sequence of drawings arranged in panels to showcase humour or a short narrative, this medium was right up their alley!<\/p>\n

To help us along, we took time to study Mo Willems’s artistic style and stories. \u00a0The children noticed the following things about the way he illustrates characters such as Piggie, Elephant, Knufflebunny, Trixie, and Pigeon:<\/p>\n

Mo Willems often uses:<\/span><\/p>\n