Sharing and Sharing and Sharing

We continued sharing the menu board projects today.  The class was filled with mosaics, poems, book covers, Venn diagrams, and so much more.  It is so fun to see all the differences in the projects.  The students seemed excited and proud to share their work.

Sharing is also a big part of our writing time.  Each day when we finish writing we try to find time to share what we wrote.  Both classes are always so willing to share their words.  We have been talking about when we share our writing during our Cynthia Rylant unit we should be able to hear a bit of Cynthia in the writing.

Today was a perfect example.  We had a student share a piece of writing about Star Wars.  The piece started with, "In a galaxy far, far away..."  As the piece continued you could see tiny little pieces of Cynthia Rylant's writing in the piece.

In class today we had read Rylant's book The Wonderful Happens.

This story has a line weaved throughout the text:  and then the wonderful happens.  It was amazing how this student was able to weave this line into his story about Star Wars.  This was just one of many examples of how the class has been using Cynthia Rylant's writing to improve their writing.

I cannot wait to see the projects that the class creates when we are ready to take these ideas a bit further.

Hope you are all having a great week.