Students develop a sense of creativity

Second-grade students researched a famous creative person of their choice

WESTTOWN >> A lot of people become famous by making their creative thoughts come to life.

The students at Ss. Simon and Jude School have countless opportunities to develop their own sense of creativity, according to second-grade teacher Briana Zembruski. She assigned her students to research creative people who are famous for different reasons.

“My students love being creative in every subject area,” Zembruski said. “Whether they make fun math displays or practice new styles in art, they love any chance to make work their own.”

She said the current reading unit emphasizes creativity and her students love being creative. The second grade recently completed a Creative Person Project in which they each researched a creative person and designed a display to show what they learned.

“Their designs were amazing and definitely creative,” Zembruski said. “Some of them chose to learn more about creative artists, famous inventors, and well-known authors.”

At the conclusion of their project, she asked her students to write their favorite fact about the creative person they researched, and submit that to the Daily Local News.

“I hope that the children in my class maintain their creative nature,” Zembruski said. “Children have such vivid imagination, and at Ss. Simon and Jude, the students build skills to foster creativity in every subject.”

Below are the submissions from her students:

1. Ainsley: Ruth Handler made Barbies, and I love Barbies. Barbie showed girls had choices.

2. James: I chose Ben Franklin because he created a lot of things like an odometer. He was an inventor.

3. Nathan: I did Dav Pilkey because I read his books and was inspired to pick him. I also did him because I like to read books, and he is my favorite book writer.

4. Hailey: I picked Walt Disney because he made Disneyland. I picked Walt Disney because he made really cool stuff.

5. Andrew: I chose Mary Pope Osborne because I like the Magic Tree House series. They are about Jack and Annie.

6. Natalie B.: I chose Henry Hartman Knoebel because he created Knoebels. Also it is an amusement park.

7. Coleman: I chose Reyn Guyer. He invented NERF and Twister.

8. Natalie Q.: I did Pleasant Rowland. Pleasant Rowland created American Girl Dolls.

9. Connal: I chose J.K. Rowling because I liked what she created. J.K. Rowling was born in July and has one younger sister Di (Diane).

10. Natalie W.: I chose Mary Pope Osborne because she made the Magic Tree House books, which are my favorite books ever. She created over 100 books.

11. Tyler: Jim Henson created thousands of puppeteers. His first puppets were Ralph and Kermit.

12. Savannah: I chose Bob Ross because he was

my Dad’s favorite artist. My Dad loved him very much, and he was a popular artist.

13. Andy: I chose my Aunt Stephanie because she draws pictures. She uses the colors blue, pink, and yellow.

14. Amy: I chose Gustave Eiffel because I like the Eiffel Tower. He was born in 1832, and he died in 1923.

15. Arianna: I chose Barbara Park because I like Junie B. Jones books. She wrote 30 Junie B. Jones books.

16. Bella: I chose Ole Kirk Christiansen because I like Legos. The name Lego is an abbreviation of the two Danish words leg and godt, meaning play well.

17. Fiona: Yayoi Kusama is from Japan. I recognized her famous Yellow Pumpkin statue from art class, and we made pumpkins out of clay.

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