The purpose of this project was to create a children’s storybook that explains conflict resolution while advocating for the health of 3rd through 5th grade students. My partner and I used water color to create our images and a circular ending narrative structure to write the story. This had to be done with a partner and in the end the final product would be sent to a place where kids can benefit from it.

We could make our images by using water color paint, drawing pencils, or collage which is basically using different ways to make our images. Water colors are paints that when water mixes with it they can be used to make images with paint brushes. We could choose what to teach the kids about in health from effective communication, conflict resolution\solving a disagreement between two or more people, or injury prevention. We could write our book in three ways which are rhyming so the words would rhyme in a pattern like a b a b, repetitive refrain which is one sentence being repeated many times in the book, or circular ending which is when a story’s beginning happens at the end so it goes around like a circle. By choosing one of each of these options in each category we were learning about wellness, language arts, and art all at the same time.

I think I grew in persistence in this project. This is because I made multiple drafts of the same image and rewrote the story three to four times. I kept on working until I was sure that there was no work left to be done on the project. I had to use proper water color techniques like layer the paint or stroking the paint brush and not pressing too hard. Another technique is to not use too much water. After all this I think that persistence means to keep on striving/working until there is no work left to be done. In this case I made sure I implemented my new techniques in my image to make sure I made the image correctly.

The first draft of the first page of my storybook doesn’t look that great but first drafts are usually not very good. In the second draft I think I grew a lot because of its change in composition. Composition means how you put together or compose an image. This draft is much better than the first draft because of how the angle of the image changes and how at first it was very static so most of the lines went up and down and right to left but now it is very dynamic so most of the lines go diagonal. To make the image the right angle was the hardest part of composing this image and that is the part that made me grow in persistence. This can be evidence that I have grown in persistence because I kept on redoing that part of the image to make the image look better.