Writing Day

Today we celebrated Writing Day.  The children have worked hard to earn 20 magnets, and voted to have a day where we write all day long!  They did an incredible job building their writing stamina, and enthusiastically writing for the whole day.

Here is the website for The Exquisite Corpse.  This is not as morbid as it sounds!  Read the explanation, and then read or listen to the stories created by some very famous authors.

Here are two videos of the children participating in this activity. The first shows the children hard at work.  The second shows them reading their stories after all of the other students had added their parts. As you can see, they were quite engaged, and really enjoyed the activity.

Later in the day we read The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris van Allsburg.  The children then wrote stories to go along with the pictures in the book.  Here are some pictures of the children creating their masterpieces.

Here is Chris van Allsburg website, where you can find all kinds of information including books he has written and videos of him discussing his books.