Friday News Flash!

I hope everyone had a wonderful 3 day weekend. Even though it was a four day week it was still a busy one. The focus of this blog is going to be on one main area because I can't stop bragging to anyone who will listen!

This week your students became official... wait for it... AUTHORS!!!!

We took our writing to a whole new level this week. Students learned about editing their work (with our special purple pens) and then they got to publish their work while using our "Publishers Toolbox." I think students were most excited about getting to finally use markers! 

The theme of our writing was list poems as we have also started our poetry unit, and most students wrote about things they love or like. After drafting their poems students looked for capitalization at the beginning of their sentences, they looked for finger spaces in between their words and then for punctuation at the end of their sentences. Some students circled one or two mistakes in purple and others, as you will see below, went a little crazy with their purple pens! Regardless, I was so pleased to see that they were looking at their own writing and correcting their papers.

Then came the challenging part, re-writing their work with the corrections. This was a long process for some students but they were motivated by getting to use the publishers toolbox when they were finished. I have never seen such beautiful pictures from students! They loved getting to use the different art tools to decorate their papers and pictures. 

Here are a few examples of the writing. The first picture will be the rough draft and the second is the final draft:

 

 

I like my mom and my dad. I like cats.

I like my mom! I like my rainbow! I like bunnies! I like cats!

I hate spiders! I hate snakes! I hate mosquito's! (got a little excited with the purple!)

I hate spiders! I hate snakes! I hate mosquito's! (Then we got excited with the colors!)

Isn't the amount of change amazing?! I get excited every time I look at all the student work.

A short post this week but rest assured next will be longer. The 100th day of school is next Wednesday and I can hardly wait to celebrate all that your students have learned over the last 100 days!

Smiles,

Miss Adams