The Happy Island

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  A long time ago and still today

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  In the happy island

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  the happy island

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  and the children?how do they spend their days?what could they do to free themsleves from the monster? what would you do?Go on with the story

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  children of many countries are playing together and having fun

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  and hidden in a water drop a little monster arrives too - ho wants to conquer the island

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  everyone hides in their house in fear of meeting him

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  but suddendly a big thunderstorm arrives

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  there is an island in the middle of the sea

Inspiration: As we were working on a book/video for 4th grade italian children and how they could deal with covid... we thought also abut children living especially in sardinia... and so we made a short video, here transformed in PDF

What it does: It charmes children through the short reading story and then it makes them think and use creativity in inventing how they would "end" the covid monster story

How I built it: we used 2 different APP (Stop Motion and Imovie) and art materials (watercolors, scrap paper)

Challenges I ran into : working in 2 people without the possibility of seeing eachother due to the strict lockdown we are expiriencing in Italy at the moment; showing a PDF work being a videostory and making sure the story/translation was apprpriate for 4th graders

Accomplishments that I'm proud of: i believe we made a short and very functional (not boring) story

What I learned: we surely improved our use of tecnology mixed with thaditional art making

What's next for The Happy Island... we will see what our sardinian children will come up to for the end of the story