Writing Celebration!

The students had such a fun time on Friday celebrating the conclusion of our narrative writing unit! We have spent the last six weeks learning what good narrative writing sounds like and creating our own stories. Our mini-lessons focused on a variety of things, from crafting powerful beginnings and endings, to "unfreezing" our characters through the use of dialogue and movement. One of the mini-lessons that we kept coming back to throughout the unit was the idea of writing a "seed story." We talked about how many second graders want to write a "watermelon story" where they tell you everything they did in the course of a day, but that writers should try to pick out one little seed from the watermelon that they can write about. It may sound silly, but comparing our writing to a watermelon really helped these young writers pull out one small moment that they wanted to write about. So, to celebrate, we shared our best personal narrative with our classmates and had a watermelon snack!

Celia and Sarah enjoying their watermelon treat.

Abdi eating up his piece of watermelon.

Sincere sharing his favorite personal narrative with the class.

Our Star Student from two weeks ago, Jayden!

Our Star Student from last week, Adeline!