Becoming Authors

January8

Author

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!

 

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Glowing and Growing

January6

Today we talked about resolutions and how a New Year can be a fresh start. We thought about the things we are good at in school. These are the areas where we “glow.” We also set some goals in the areas where we need to improve or  “grow.” A personal goal of mine for 2015 is to use this blog as a way to communicate with all of you. This is my area where I need to “grow.” I have much learning to do, especially when it comes to uploading pictures and media files.

Some of you may be wondering about The World According to Humphrey.  This is the information we received today.

Due to shipping delays, the One School, One Book Family Book Club reading calendar will have to be pushed back. We anticipate at least one more week. We will be sending an updated reading schedule home with the books as soon as they arrive. Sorry for the delay and thank you for your patience!

Mrs. N.

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Something New!

January3

Welcome!

We are glad you are here! Hopefully you will find this space to be informative. A place where you can find out about what’s going on in the classroom (please see the school webpage for general school information). This will also be a place to peek into our classroom and see what we are learning about!

Student’s names will never appear on this blog; however student work may occasionally be posted. Each student in the class will be given a number to identify their work. You will be given your child’s number so that when you see work appear on this blog with that number you know that it is your child’s learning.

We will try to keep this blog updated on a regular basis, but as always if there is a need to contact either of us please call the school, write a note in the planner, send an e-mail or stop by the classroom to talk. We are looking forward to 2015! Let’s get started.

Mrs. M & Mrs. N

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