September 2012
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August 2012
48 posts
SummerWrites 2012: Friday Week 9
Harry Potter
Evaluations
Finished the Daily Prophet
Decorated cupcakes
Quidditch Game
Cauldron of Fiction
Anthology work
Writing exercise
Guided meditation
First lines
Maps and crests
Final anthologies
Write On!
Freewrite
Discussed helpful skills of writers and usese of journals
Unusual “pet words”
Signed books
Rewrite your fiction
All day group editing
Starry Nites
...
SummerWrite 2012: Thursday Week 9
Harry Potter
Quick Quills
Bertie Bott’s Beans
Quidditch
Howlers
Rewrite Your Fiction
All day group editing
Script work
Write On!
Freewrite
Made collages from magazine photos. Wrote about them.
Eggcercizes!
Practiced making metaphors
Went to Image City to write from photos
Superheroes!
Wrote superhero monologues
Superhero craft
Fantastical Fiction: World Building
Author’s choice time:...
SummerWrites 2012: Wednesday, Week 9
Harry Potter
Book share
Tour at Eastman Gardens (our herbology lesson)
Write On
Freewrite
Picked a random word and wrote about it
Created our own wordsfor the class to write about
Made pencil journals
Character writing exercise
Guided character meditation
Superheros
Superhero monologues
Science museum gardens
Fantastical Fiction: World Building
Author’s choice time: continue...
SummerWrite 2012: Tuesday, Week 9
Harry Potter
Quick Quills
Dueling
Wizard Trading Cards
Chocolate frogs/popcorn
Bring books tomorrow
Rewrite Your Fiction
Style Manuel
Group editing
Publishers and agendas
Publishing Websites
Write On
Shared work
Discussed different uses for journals
Guided daydreaming
Wrote about daydreams and shared them with the class
Wrote about photographs from magazines
Character...
SummerWrite 2012: Monday, Week 9
Harry Potter
Sorting
Cinquains
Wand crafting
Writing about wands
Write Only
Freewrite
Observed our classmates
Interviewed and introduced classmates
Filled out writer’s survey
Wrote with our 5 senses outside
Discussed our writing habits
Field work!
Rewrite Your Fiction
Introductions
Group editing
Snacks/planning session
Video
Superheroes
Read monologues!
Decorated name...
SummerWrite 2012 - Tuesday, Week 8
Shakespeare Stage
Perform names as poems
Review plot summary and read scenes from Much Ado About Nothing
Voice and body warm-ups
Shakespearean insult game focusing on an actor’s intention and tactics
Claire led jellyfish game
Erik led press conference game
Discussion of casting
Bunny, Bunny as led by Chie and Claire
Shakespeare Death Lines game
Gratitude Circle
Magical Poetry
Made fairy...
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SummerWrite 2012 - Monday, Week 8
Morning Classes: Magical Poetry
Afternoon Classes: Fiction Writing Skills
Full Day Classes: Outdoor Writers, Shakespeare’s Stage, Where’s Walden
Magical Poetry
Made introduction cards
Wrote poems about our favorite seasons
Went over magical creatures like brownies and changeling
Wrote “pop out” poems
Fiction Writing Skills
Introduced ourselves and talked about our...
SummerWriter, Week 7: Friday
Field Guide to Magical Beings
Made wands
Wrote in our field guide
Fairy picnic and parade
Walden Pond Goes Urban
Group photos
Continued writing and constructing our Twig Books
Lava Monsters
Shared with parents
Last walk and writing outside
Poetry, Pottery and Paper
Final presentation for parents
Percy Jackson
Practicing and performance
Fancy Words with Fancy Nancy
Decorated...
SummerWriter, Week 7: Thursday
Field Guide to Magical Beings
Worked on our pop-up books
Went to the Eastman house and observed the gardens/fairies
Walden Pond Goes Urban
Constructed our twig books
Created watercolored paper
Continued writing pieces for our twig books
Writing outside
Poetry, Pottery and Paper
Color poems
“Telephone poems”
Book arts
Color in poems
Percy Jackson
Playwrites in action!
Dress...
SummerWriter, Week 7: Wednesday
Field Guide to Magical Beings
Earth day today!
Wrote an entry into our field guides
Worked on our fairy houses
Wrote an underworld story/pop-up fairy house
Walden Pond Goes Urban
A return to the RMSC herb garden
Eastman revisited
Free-writing in nature
Preparation for our nature anthologies
Poetry, Pottery and Paper
Continue working on poems
Glazing the pottery
Percy Jackson
...
SummerWrite, Week 7: Tuesday
Field Guide to Magical Beings
Water element day!
Put an entry in our field guides
Built more of our fairy houses
Wrote a poem/story about our water animal
Walden Pond Goes Urban
Eastman House Gardens - sensory writing
Water color painting
Reading more Thoreau
Poetry, Pottery and Paper
Wrote “life is…” extended metaphor poems, solo and teams of two, three
Wrote...
SummerWrite, Week 7: Monday
Field Guide to Magical Beings
Today we:
Created our own magical names
Made our field guides
Heard a story
Played Outside (scouted fairy houses)
Recorded our first magical creatures in our guides!
Walden Pond Goes Urban
Today we had:
Intro to Thoreau
Nature walk through community
Herb Garden Tutorial
Foliage Appreciation
Poetry, Pottery and Paper
Today we:
Made dreamhouses out...
SummerWrite, Week 6: Friday
My Name in Print
Today we:
Filled out our evaluations and had a special snack
Did one last writing exercise
Went outside
Received our anthology
Had our reading
Thanks for a great week!!
Bienvenidos
Song patterns
Farm animals & their young
Letter name- sound
Juan & Maria’s- story
Prepare for performance
Chevere!!!
Art of the Picture Book
Today we:
Finished our stories...
SummerWrite, Week 6: Thursday
My Name in Print
Today we:
made poetry hats- your children have great imaginations!
We also wrote a poem- capturing words from MJ’s poem “The Present”
Picking up anthology from the printer today… Hurray!!
Don’t forget: Friday @ 11:15am is our reading.
Bienvenidos
Rutina matutina
Gira al Mercado Publico- Empanadas de Juan y Maria
Ensayar para el espectaculo de...
SummerWrite, Week 6: Wednesday
My Name in Print
Today we:
Created a word spill based on a painting we chose
Used that word spill to write a story
Had snack and went outside
Wrote about our dream houses
Don’t forget Friday @ 11:15am is our reading!!!
Bienvenidos: Fun with Spanish
Morning songs/ routines
Story: La Voca que Decia OINK
Weather words
Listen/ identify animal sounds
Environmental print
Silla-...
SummerWrite, Week 6: Tuesday
Bienvenidos: Fun with Spanish
Morning activity
Story
Snack
Writing
Performance
Divertir!!!
My Name in Print
Wrote Do you know and apology poems inspired by professional models
Designed our dream houses
Wrote a Technicolor story using a word spill
We also played on the playground and ate goldfish crackers!
Banquet of Books
Who’s the elephant? game
Babar by Laurent de Brunhoff...
July 2012
33 posts
SummerWrite, Week 6: Monday
Classes- Mornings:
- Bienvenidos: Fun with Spanish
- My Name in Print
- Writers & Cooks: Menus for Every Meal
Afternoons:
- A Banquet of Books
- The Art of the Picture Book
- Writers & Cooks: Around the World
Full Day Classes:
- Imagination Collaboration: Music, Writing and Theater
Bienvenidos: Fun with Spanish
Welcome songs
Buenos dias
yo soy
environmental print
door-...
