Writing Class

You know writing is one of my favorite times of the day. Here are a couple of nuggets, giving a little insight into my students' family relationships. This first one is by a little brother of one of my former students, who also features prominently in the story.

I went to get some ice cream. It fell. "Not cool, dude."

My brother laughed. I punched him. That is what you get for doing that.

He got mad. He punched me back. I did not care. "I don't like you." "Don't care."

And then he added another page, because Mrs. Fox said we really should end on a happier note.

I like you. I like you too. "Love."

This is from another student's story about going to a parade with his dad. Subsequent pages detail how bad he had to go to the bathroom, that he was jumping up and down. Great literature here.

Student: Come on, I want to go home. Dad: Be quiet, I can not hear.

We are now writing All-About books and one of the boys has written an awesome book about bats. I'm glad I don't have to teach more technical writing. My goal is to get capital letters at the beginning of sentences, punctuation at the end, spelling, and handwriting. You can see I have a lot of ground to cover.