It's 12:05 a.m. on March 1st, which means it's time for me to post the widget for Day 1 of the Slice of Life Story Challenge. Please link your Slice of Life Story to us here by clicking on the Mr. Linky Widget below. To learn more about this Challenge, please visit our Slice of… Continue reading Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 1
Category: small moment
Eight Slice of My Life –> Sharing With My Students
This will be the cover page for the eight slice of life stories I wrote this past week. I'm going to be sharing them with my students so that they, too, can take part in the March Slice of Life Story Challenge. (I'm going to discuss this during the News & Announcements Part of our… Continue reading Eight Slice of My Life –> Sharing With My Students
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Slice of Life Story: Close Call
Mr. Quirk, my high school driving instructor, told me that many accidents happen in parking lots since people aren't paying attention. For that reason, I've always been sure to be extra-alert whenever I enter a parking lot since I'm assuming the other people aren't as focused as I am. When I pulled into the parking… Continue reading Slice of Life Story: Close Call
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Publishing Small Moment Stories in Kindergarten
I had the pleasure of spending a couple of hours at P.S. 171, my old school, yesterday when I was in NYC taking care of some wedding planning. During the time I was there, I attended the Kindergarteners first publishing party in Tiffany Colon (one of my former student teachers) and Kim Ciccone's Class. I… Continue reading Publishing Small Moment Stories in Kindergarten
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Write about it in your notebook!
One of my students got injured in the classroom yesterday. Hence, he had to make a trip to the hospital emergency room. I visited him in the evening and found that he had two hospital bracelets on. I suggested that he tape them into his writer's notebook after he got discharged and then use those… Continue reading Write about it in your notebook!
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Twenty Published Pieces
Twenty Published Pieces That Grew Out of Writer's Notebook Entries Caption: My students spent two days working on on-demand writing pieces. Today eight of them shared their small moment stories in front of their peers. However, all of them took time to decorate the covers of the manila folders that hold photocopies of their original… Continue reading Twenty Published Pieces
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On-Demand Writing Time
They've collected and collected and collected some more in their writer's notebooks. Now it's time for my kids to publish something. I'm giving them two days to do an "on-demand" piece of writing about a small moment in time. Today I had them use post-its to help themselves find some entries they wanted to publish.… Continue reading On-Demand Writing Time
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Memory Boxes are a big hit!
I modeled the golf glove piece to my class today during my demonstration. I partially wrote it out and partially wrote in the air. Then, I had the kids select one item from their memory box, during the active engagement, and had them write in the air about it, telling the story of the memory… Continue reading Memory Boxes are a big hit!
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One notebook or many?
Last week I blogged about a Recipe for Conferring Success. I've done some more thinking about it in recent days and am left pondering the following questions for myself as a teacher of writing: 1. One notebook or many? a. How many notebooks should teachers of writing keep to use in conferences and strategy lessons… Continue reading One notebook or many?
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The first month of school
I met with the other teacher on my grade level today to plan our Reading and Writing Workshops for the first month of school. Our writing teaching points were inspired by five professional book authors: Aimee Buckner, Lucy Calkins, Ralph Fletcher, JoAnn Portalupi, and Jim Vopat. Would you have a look over what we created… Continue reading The first month of school
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Strategy: Use photos to tell a story
I often have my students bring in photographs of them at special times in their lives in order to help them spark their memory (and write a small moment story.) I discourage them from bringing in posed family portraits since, unless you got into a fist-fight with your little sister before the snapshot at Sears,… Continue reading Strategy: Use photos to tell a story
