Kid Writing

I am so excited about the progress the kids are making with their writing. I want to share a few pieces with you. Emma wrote, "I like to go to the pizza place." She used a combination of sight words and kid spelling on her paper. They are working on using a capital at the beginning of a sentence, spaces between words, and punctuation at the end.

Kase wrote, "I like to eat turkey on Thanksgiving". Illustrations are important, also. On this paper, Kase knew it wasn't enough to just draw a turkey. He needed to add details to help the reader. You can see many details in his drawing that supports his sentence.

Thomas wrote, "I like chicken". He did a good job of listening to the sounds in the word "chicken" and he wrote what he heard.

This one cracks me up. Luke wrote, "I do not like to change my color to yellow". He's never had to change his color, but it must be on his mind. I don't think he was trying to be funny, but humor in writing is great.

Olivia wrote about something sad. She wrote, "We don't like when our fish dies". Somtimes the kids like to write about something that has happened to them.

Every student has a writing notebook and we use it for writing down ideas. Then on a day when we write, the kids take their notebooks and look for an idea. I never tell them what to write about. They have many of their own ideas and sometimes the problem is deciding which ideas to use.

They are doing so well with one sentence that I told them today that soon I would start requiring 2 sentences. They think they are up to the challenge.