This year in writer’s workshop your child will use a “writer’s notebook” along with the computer to keep track of all of the stories, ideas, poems, lists, and PowerPoints she/he works on. Recently your child created a PowerPoint on our trip to the Olympic Park Institute. The students all experimented with adding pictures from our trip, finding clip art, writing headlines, proofreading each other’s work and experimenting with sound and other fun design features. This year we will continue to work on “The 6 Traits of Writing”: ideas, organization, sentence fluency, conventions, word choice and voice. We have started our study on ideas and organization. As a side note, we have also begun typing practice and cursive practice. These skills will be taught throughout the year. Narrative writing is our genre focus this term, expository writing and poetry will follow. Stay tuned for some interesting stories coming your way!
