Second Grade, Writing, Set Two

From The Magic Pencil:

• We skipped to the second section and have been playing with similes. We spent one week doing the exercises in the book. The second week I went on-line and found a crossword puzzle of similes and a few sheets that had the beginning of similes for us to finish. We tried to be creative and not use typical things.

I found the book Writing Hangups by Murray Suid at the library. This book is full of easy writing projects.

• This week K. made a chain letter. She wrote a letter to Grandpa on a piece of construction paper, then we cut the paper into strips and made it into a chain before giving it to him.
• K. had written a puppet show for our family potluck. We made cue cards to hold up a certain points for the audience. Examples: clip-clop; snore; yum!
• Another week K. wrote a box story. We took a shoe box and I cut paper to cover each side. On each piece of paper she wrote a part of her own story. We made sure she wrote "side 1", etc. on each side. At the end of each part of the story it states to open the box and find (something that has to do with the story). For one part it is a cat, another part it is a mouse, etc. When the story is all written, glue or tape the papers on the box. This will be fun to share with our family.

 

Here is the box story.

 

Here are the items inside the box.

 

From Games for Writing:

• Word by Word page 47
• Acrostic Poems page 69 -- we like to add pictures to ours
• What a Personality page 124