Fun with Writng

 We have been using our writing center time to dig deeper with our writing skills. I have been telling the students that I want more details and sentences using adjectives and vocabulary that will be interesting. They have the paragraph down with the topic sentence, three detail sentences, and the wrap-up sentence now they need to "beef-up" their writing to make it more interesting. Here are several of the ways that they have worked on their skills. After reading fiction and non-fiction stories on the groundhog the students wrote in first person about their own groundhog home. For Valentine's Day they tried writing poetry with a FRIENDS acrostic poem. We just finished our week with a fun writing activity about the Angry Birds. They loved making the Angry Birds and most chose to skip Friday Fun Time to make more birds. We have also just finished up our math and adding with and without regrouping. They did a great job with this and continue working on their facts to make these more difficult problems easier to compute.