Iliana

Title of Children’s Book: Piece of Cake

The theme of our story was sorting and what I’ve learned most about this topic is that sorting can take any form and that it is all around us.

My favorite JSIP moment was when we went to P.S.1 and were able to see the different way media can make a statement.

Anivette

Title of Children’s Book: Bit and Dizzy’s Clubhouse

The theme of our story was shapes. What I’ve learned most about this topic is the different ways children can learn about this topic and how they can learn.

My favorite JSIP moment was when we experimented with model magic and began to make the characters for our book.

Jhoana

Title of Children’s Book: Bit and Dizzy’s Clubhouse

I’ve been a JSI since Spring 2011.

The theme of out story was shapes. What I’ve learned the most about this topic was how to teach children math in a fun way.

My favorite JSIP moment was when I had to Photoshop, and fix our pictures on the computer.

Melissa

Title of Children’s Book: Bit and Dizzy’s Clubhouse

I’ve been a JSI since Fall 2010.

The theme of our story was shapes. What I’ve learned most about this topic is, how to express information in a way children will understand.

My favorite JSIP moment was when we were designing the backgrounds to go with the book.

Samantha

Title of Children’s Book: Bit and Dizzy’s Clubhouse

I’ve been a JSI since Summer 2010.

The theme of our story was about shapes. What I’ve learned most about this topic is how simple, yet how difficult it is to explain it. It was fairly easy coming up with a clubhouse concept to introduce basic shapes. But it was kind of hard highlighting and differentiating the different shapes in an understandable way.

My favorite JSIP moment was when we were making our main characters, Bit and Dizzy. I don’t usually work with model magic, but it was a lot of fun making a bear and rabbit as our main guys.

Pranitha

Title of Children’s Book: Bit and Dizzy’s Clubhouse

I’ve been a JSI since Fall 2010

The theme of our story was shapes. What I’ve learned most about this topic is how easy it is to show children how shapes really are all around us.

My favorite JSIP moment was when we took trips to various sites around the city. We did not realize until we were well into our book making process how much we were inspired by the different museums we visited.

Nathan

Title of Children’s Book: 2 Fish or Not 2 Fish

I’ve been a JSI since Fall 2010

The theme of our story was counting. What I’ve learned most about this topic was there are many ways of counting things in everyday life.

My favorite JSIP moment was when we had trips and when we went to S.I.C.M.

Mark

Title of Children’s Book: 2 Fish or Not 2 Fish

I’ve been a JSI since Fall 2010.

The theme of our story was counting. What I've learned most about this topic was how to incorporate counting in different ways so we can teach children how to count.

My favorite JSIP moment was I created the characters out of model magic.

Alfredo

Title of Children’s Book: 2 Fish or Not 2 Fish

I’ve been a JSI since Summer 2010.

The theme of our story was counting. What I’ve learned most about this topic is you can use counting with anything.

My favorite JSIP moment was when we went S.I.C.M.

Jennifer

Title of Children’s Book: Piece of Cake

I’ve been a JSI since Fall 2010.

The theme of our story is sorting. What I’ve learned most about this topic is that children can learn a simple concept in a fun way.

My favorite JSIP moment was when we were reading “Green Eggs and Ham” to the children.

Marcus

Title of Children’s Book: Piece of Cake

I’ve been a JSI since Summer 2010

The theme of our story was sorting. What I’ve learned most about this topic is concept of sorting is fairly simple and children can comprehend it in a fun way.

My favorite JSIP moment was when we were doing tours in the summer.

Giovanni

Title of Children’s Book: Piece of Cake

I’ve been a JSI since Spring 2011.

The theme of our story is sorting. I learned how to use model magic and sculpting objects and parts of a person’s body. I learned how to think very simple while creating a children’s book.

My favorite JSIP moment was my first day, because I was getting to know everyone.