Today we  read a story called Author A True Story by Helen Lester. It is a story about becoming a writer. In the story Helen describes some of her early years and how she felt about writing.

“Often I couldn’t come up with a single idea and my stories got stuck in the middle, and I couldn’t think of a title, and I had trouble making the changes my teacher wanted me to make, and I lost my pencils, and I wondered why I was doing this, and I got very, very, VERY frustrated.”

We were so inspired by the story that we started the process to become (self) “published” authors. Today we started with a structured story map. The story map is tool we used to fill in some blanks about the “who,” “what,” and “where” of our story. Once we had filled in our story maps we took our ideas and wrote a paragraph. Some of us were so excited about story writing that we wanted to work on them during our indoor recess. Some of us even wanted to take them home to keep writing! We have defiantly caught a writing bug in 2MN!

We know that sometimes we may not have a single idea, or we might get stuck in the middle. We might not have titles for our writing, and sometimes we many not want to make the changes our teachers ask us to make. We may lose our pencils and occasionally we may be frustrated, but we are still very excited about getting our ideas onto paper.

We look forward to sharing our published stories with our classmates, care partners, and family members in the coming months!