2017 Term 1 - Storytelling writing in Room 4

Term 1 - Storytelling writing in Room 4.

Throughout the holidays and this term, I have been thinking about formulating and changing my writing programme and making it easier and more interesting for my wee kiddies in Room 4.

Last term we had some PD  with the RT lit Story Telling with RT lit Liz Swanson. I really fell in love with the 'Story Telling' idea for writing and all the children were engaged in these lessons. We had weekly PD sessions in Term 1 and gain valuable information, ideas and discussions around Story Telling. 

We have decided to begin our story writing for the term with 'The Hungry Caterpillar" as the children have already done the story with Janine earlier in the term. Then we focus on an easy and engaging story 'The Gingerbread Man'. The kids love this story and were all engaged.  Our TA, Sylvia did some baking with our ESOL children and shared it with both classes.  Our second story 'The Magic Porridge Pot' was also very engaging for the children and they loved mapping and stepping it out.  It was just amazing how all the children enjoy our writing sessions and are able to write, even though some of them are only new entrants.

School often represents a calm, caring place and home life doesn't match up, so I am aiming to focus on keeping our classroom a calm and caring place for the children and also putting our focus on our stories on the calming and caring aspects.