In Language Arts this year we read a book called The Last Cuentista. The Last Cuentista is a book about a girl on Earth named Petra who has to evacuate from Earth due to a crash from Halley’s Comet. Even if you survive the comet strike, the Earth would be uninhabitable. Therefore, Petra plans to evacuate earth to a planet called Sagan on a spaceship that looks like a cricket. This trip will take three hundred and eighty years.

Midway through the book we were assigned to make our dream planet (or our ideal world). My ideal world had the best of my imagination including: hot snow (where you can ski but not be cold), broccoli that tastes like watermelon and purple skies. Now that should be everyone’s dream! My planet would be in a universe close to my friends. You can get to other planets in my universe with a short rocket ride that leaves every hour. See my blog post for more details.

After the assignment about our world, we made our own art book about it with an amazing person named Peg Gignoux. Ms. Gignoux is an expert in art and taught us how to make our world come to life. One method that we used to make our paper background was a technique called Akua printing. This is when we roll paints on a plastic pad, get plants and flowers, then put paper on top and roll it with a roller. Since the paints could stain our clothes, we had to wear aprons. After we made our Akua prints, we pasted it into our book to make scenes about our planet. 

In conclusion, I really learned a lot and enjoyed this project. It makes reading much more fun and interesting when you get to use your imagination to build worlds and then  turn it into art. I think it would be great to do more projects like this in the future.