Share Time

It is hard to pick my favorite part of the day.  I could pick the conversations that we have after read aloud.  The class raising their hands wanting to share more and more about what they are thinking as we read.  I could pick the moments when we race to find a word in a dictionary or race to put the steps of how a bill becomes a law into proper sequence.  The energy in the room as we race to show what we know.  I could pick from a million different parts of our day.  Lately, though, the best moments have come at the rocking chair when students share their writing.

I wish we could let everyone share each day but unfortunately we do not have the time.  Students rush over to show me what they have written.  Today the students had even more to share than usual.  I had notebooks left on my desk, so I could read the writing while students were getting ready at the end of the day.  I even had a student come see me before school to share what she had written last night.  I read notebooks as students lined up waiting to leave.  I loved reading all this amazing writing.  I thought I would share a bit of some pieces that I have heard over the last two day.  This first bit of writing is about a football game.

They mocked us, trash talked about us, they said we couldn't do it.  Because a team with 14 players can't beat a team like them in second grade because they said they were the best.  A year later the game is here the rivalry that has gone on for years and I joined that rivalry against Springboro.  We came toe to toe.  Head to head at our home field.  Ready to defend our turf.  And we did we took it to them.

I love this opening.  That list to start the writing is just amazing.  Also the toe to toe and head to head, sounds amazing.  Here is part of a piece on a lumberjack.

One two three the lumberjack chips pieces of wood.  One two three wham, boom, crash.  Trees fall one by one.  The echo of the axe comes flying like a bird through the black and mysterious night.

These are just two examples of some of the amazing examples I get to hear each day.  I know I could not write like this when I was in fourth grade.  Our students constantly amaze me with their thinking and their writing.  I cannot wait to see all the writing I have waiting for me tomorrow.

Hope you are all having a great week.