Hosting a notebook SOLSC for your students?
I would like to invite those of you who will not be blogging with your students in March to participate in the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge. You can dip in and dip out of the Classroom Challenge in one or both of the following ways:
1. If your students will be writing daily in writers notebooks, consider scanning some of their notebook entries to a page of your personal or classroom blog. Then, share that unique URL on the daily call for classroom slice of life stories.
2. Craft a shared writing slice of life story with your students daily (M-F). Let it be about something that happens to you as a class. (Think about strong emotions. For instance, something that got everyone laughing together is a good place to start.) Post it on your personal or classroom blog. Link it to the daily call for classroom slice of life stories.
If you do decide to participate in one of the above-mentioned ways, please make sure that you and your students are still leaving comments on other classrooms’ blog posts (i.e., who link through the daily calls for classroom sol stories). I think will be key if you want your students to get feedback on the writing you post on their behalf.
The shared writing slice of life idea came to me after reading a question Rissa Zimmerman asked in her recent comment. Therefore, if you have another way you think a class who isn’t planning to blog could participate, feel free to leave a comment below. As you know, this classroom challenge is brand-new. Having kids write slice of life stories is not new. Therefore, I hope to gather multiple ways to invite classrooms into this challenge so it positively mpact all classrooms who are slicing.
My students are writing in their notebooks this year as they did last year. I have one student who might l set up with Kidblog. I just need ideas for their daily writing.
We are off for student/parent conferences so my student will begin there writing next Monday. A few days behind but writing will happen. Thanks for new ideas on how we can share our student writing.
My students will be writing in their notebooks and also via PBWorks, the WIKI that our district uses. Thank you for your efforts to welcome writers in a variety of ways. I love both of these ideas. We may even start tomorrow with a shared writing tomorrow. “Twas the night before slicing and all pencils were sharpened…Happy Slicing to all!
@Theresa: My pleasure. I wish I had thought if it before today. (Sigh.)
Anyway, check out Amy Rudd’s poem, which has a similar theme: http://theamyrudder.blogspot.com/2013/02/slice-of-life-eve.html?spref=tw&m=1.
We’re doing the notebook challenge here – we’re all going to be writing in class and I’m encouraging them to share to our new class blog when they are comfortable. I’m hoping to get at least one or two posted a day and maybe when they see what kind of feedback those people get I’ll get more. Starting small this year.🙂
My class is fired up and ready to write. We will be posting on a kidblog: http://kidblog.org/SliceofLifeChallenge. If your class has a kidblog, let me know so we can connect.
I forgot about kidblog! I have a young writer who might want to participate even if his class isn’t. This might work for him!
I can send you the class code if he wants to join. What grade level? Mine are spread from 2-6.
He’s in 1st grade.He’ll need some help from me, but I think he might want to do this. Let me see what he says. Thank you!
I have a first grader, too, but I teach her math so I wasn’t going to get her involved. I’ll check with her today.