Term 4 - Writing after the Holiday's.

Term 4 - Writing after the Holiday's.

Throughout the holidays I have been thinking about formulating my writing programme and making it interesting for my children.

It has been mentioned during various meetings that making students write about what they did in their holidays can be very upsetting for many kids. The holidays isn't always a time that kids look forward to. School often represents a calm, caring place and home life doesn't match up.

After considering this I have decided to begin my writing for the term by learning about ANZAC day which occured in the holidays. Not in depth at this level but we will talk about what it means and study the poppy flower. Students who want to may write about their holidays but the focus won't be on this to allow for those kids who don''t have anything they would want to share.

Later in the term we talk a lot about 'Story Telling' and Janine ask us to pick a storybook to write about for our Writing Example. We had some PD  with the RT lit one afternoon. Story Telling with RT lit Liz Swanson. I really fell in love with the 'Story Telling' idea for writing and all the children were engage in these lessons.  We started with the 'Gruffalo'.  It was just amazing how all the children enjoy our writing sessions. Our Writing Example was a huge success.