Writing Our Stories

Since the start of the year, we have been talking and writing about our lives. Sometimes, students think that their lives are not exciting enough to write about. They want all the action and excitement of a Nickelodean cartoon in the own lives so they feel that they have something "worth" writing about. We spend a lot of time talking about the everyday moments in our lives and coming to realize that it is those very same small moments that make our lives so very interesting and make each of us a most amazing person with a story to tell.

Over the past week, we have been working on our story puzzles. In each corner, students were asked to think about a specific topic and find the stories that they could write about when their writing "well" becomes dry. They were to draw those ideas so that when they needed to... "I have nothing to write about..." they could stand in front of their puzzle and remember a story and begin to write. Now, we haven't yet been taught how to access those stories from our drawings yet,

but in the meantime. We have some beautiful artwork displayed in our room. Drop by to see it sometime...