First Grade, Writing, Set Two

• K. is really enjoying Draw Write Now. During our week off she was asking me what animals she got to draw next. Then when she was flipping through the book her comment was, "Oh, there's lots!"
• Her rabbit this week, actually looked like a rabbit, so there is certainly progress!
• I also like that it is something we can do together and it gives practice on following step by step instructions.
• Our activities were Obstacle Course (Games for Writing pg 9) -- we each found 3 different ways to get to the park; and Mixed Up and Missing (Games for Writing pg 107) -- after doing five of the simple sentences listed, we mixed up the words from all five sentences and made other sentences, such as: My brother took the loud firefly on a long walk.
• Say it With Pictures (Games for Writing pg 23) -- I let K. cut pictures out of old Ranger Rick magazines, then we wrote a word that described the picture or animal (fuzzy, hungry, scary, etc.) on another piece of paper, cut it out, and glued it on the collage.
• Strange Sentences (Games for Writing pg 113) -- we made three sentences and I let K. pick two of the sentences to illustrate.
• She is So . . . Loud (Games for Writing) -- we had "her" so loud the roof blew off the house, the stars covered their ears, and the ice on Pluto melted!
• For Traveling Words (Games for Writing pg 102) I had K. find a favorite sentence in the book Runny Babbit.
• Over the past weeks I had been collecting words K. didn't spell correctly for the game Which is Right? (Games for Writing pg 95).
• This week we were reading about sharks, so we decided to skip around in Draw Write Now and do the "shark lesson".
• After I showed K. three examples of Acrostic Poems (Games for Writing pg 69) that I had written, she wanted to write hers by herself. The acrostic word she used was SPRING.