The last couple of weeks have been all about setting up expectations for writer’s workshop- including starting our writer’s notebooks, reviewing the writing process, and thinking about ourselves as writers. This week we jumped full swing into personal narratives that we hope to publish around the time of conferences. We learned about choosing small moments- seed stories, over larger, watermelon stories. We read several mentor texts that demonstrated incredible writing and taught us about the characteristics of personal narratives. The class committed to subjects and started drafting today! I can’t wait to watch their writing expand and grow through this writing process, stay tuned! 

As always, please ask your child to fill you in on more specific details from class. I’ve included pictures of our anchor charts below so you can see first hand the ideas/topics we’ve been discussing and practicing in class.