Writers Celebration

We are authors!! We published our books last week and then shared them with our buddies during our first writers celebration. Our buddies brought us each special congratulatory cards to tell us how proud they were of us and were amazed at how much we've grown in just this short time since the beginning of school. We followed this sharing time with cookies and a game called Freeze Dance.

We can't wait to bring our books home and share with you! Right now they are being prepared to put into our electronic portfolios, but it shouldn't be long before they can come home. When they are brought home, please take the time to discuss the writing process and time we as authors have put into our stories. Notice the growth over each page and congratulate me on a job well done!

We are now focusing on predicable pattern books in class and have read a multitude of pattern books. We have examined the various approaches used by the authors and know different types, such as:

• See-Saw patterns (AB)
• Page patterns
• Growing patterns
• Shrinking patterns
• Circle stories

Watch us explore the see-saw pattern in the book It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw:

See-Saw Pattern Books: KG-M from AIS Dhaka on Vimeo.

We will begin mapping out our own pattern books tomorrow by doing the first stage of the writing process: thinking. The writing of books takes time and care, so please ask me throughout the week how my first pattern book is coming along!

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