Today we learned that donuts and writing go really well together! We celebrated our published writing by sharing our fictional stories/essays/personal narratives while eating donuts and clementines. Our first official published pieces are messy and imperfect. The goal of this writing piece was to learn more about ourselves as writers and to navigate the writing process. Through this piece, and smaller writing samples we have completed, each child has worked on developing different skills. Some students worked on learning more about including dialogue while others worked on including more descriptive language. This may mean that your child has perfect use of quotation marks but many spelling mistakes or vague details. I promise—this is OK!  Eventually each child will add more and more tools to his/her writing toolbox to strengthen his/her writing. Ask your child about his/her writing piece and look for more writing soon! Our next unit of study will be writing memoirs, or true, personal stories.