Writing Celebration

In writing we have been working on writing books about our lives- true stories. For the past few weeks, each day we have been focusing on different aspects of writing true stories- thinking of a story, orally planning it with a partner, making sure the pictures show who is in the story, where it happened and WHAT happened. We even experimented with speech bubbles! The kids have worked so hard! This week they picked one story to edit and make the best it could be. Today we celebrated! Each student read his or her book to the class, sitting in the special author's chair. When they finished, we clapped and I awarded them with a Super Writer badge to wear for the rest of the day!