Writers at Work

With all the rain this week, students had to spend
a lot of time inside at recess.  This is one of the wonderful
creations with pattern blocks that they made!

This year, I am part of a learning community to improve student writing. In Grade one, we have worked a lot on including lots of details in our writing.  In our writers' workshop lessons this week, we collected ideas and details using a "five square" organizer", then put these ideas into sentences.  The pictures below show students hard at work. It is amazing to see the difference between what the students could do at the beginning of the year compared to the wonderful stories they are writing now!  I showed the children samples of their writing from September and they thought it was quite funny how many of them couldn't even write any words and now they can write stories that are several pages long with interesting words and details.  I am so proud!

A completed five square organizer

Writing in progress