Magnolia Tree

magnolia tree
the sweet smell turning sour
wind blows, petals fall

Camille Ziolek

41st Birthday

On my bike . . . just me
Country road . . . early morning
free . . . fast . . . forty-one









Little wind . . . sunny
Asphalt under me . . . fields go by
Fabulous . . . fun . . . bike

by Mr. Karr

FAMILY WRITING NIGHT SUCCESS

You've come to the right place to see the writing from Family Writing Night (FWN)! For hard copies we receive in the school office, we'll post them on a bulletin board in the hallway.

The purpose of FWN was to have parents and children experience the writing process together. During FWN we experienced:

• Prewriting - Books about places to play, brainstorming our own favorite play places, generating descriptive sensory words like what it smelled like, felt like, etc.
• Drafting - Initial writing about your favorite place to play. Some wrote stories. Others wrote poems.
• Sharing - Whoever wanted to share came to the front to read their writing. It was a lot of fun to hear/see what others came up with.

From the point where FWN ended, families could (and hopefully will) move on to:

• Revise their writing - Add, change, or remove something to make the writing clearer and descriptive
• Proofread and edit writing - Look for spelling, punctuation, capitalization errors and/or incomplete sentences
• Publish their writing - this can be done either via email or by sending a hard copy to school--or both!

You can SUBMIT your writing via email by CLICKING HERE.

Text and a picture/graphic (< 1MB in size) can be included.

As families share their writing and pictures, they'll be included here for everyone's enjoyment.

Poetry in the Wild Writing Workshop

Congratulations to all of the creative 3rd and 4th grade writers that have participated in the Poetry in the Wild workshop over the last month. Led by Eastern Michigan University professor Carolyn Berge and her group of college students, the group has experimented with different forms of nature poetry. Many thanks to Carolyn and her students for making nature come to life on the pages of our kids' poetry journals. Check out some of the writing from the workshop...

Christine Jahn

 

Vritti Kharbanda

 

Nesma Daoud

 

Reza Najafi

 

Pen Pen Yang

 

Olivia Boudette

 

Zachary Kanjirath

 

Tina Galia

 

Sabrina Wu

 

Myriam Sarment

 

Monica Nedeltchev

 

Mira Shetty

 

Melissa Newman

 

Marrisa Modell

 

Jessica Zhang

 

James Nedeltchev