During our last few sessions of Writers Workshop we have worked on planning stories, with a beginning, middle, and end. When we first started this process we were thinking about small moments in our own lives that we could write about, but then several students asked if they could plan fiction stories, to which I replied, "Of course!" Today we talked about turning some of these story ideas into books that we can put a laminated cover on. For a book to be ready for a cover it has to have pictures and words (students can write any sounds they hear and I will then scribe the story), and it has to have a beginning, middle, and end. Once students get a cover they can put a title on their books and we will keep them at school for a little while to be shared and read. Eventually they will come home.

The weather is definitely growing chillier. Please make sure your child has appropriate outdoor clothing. Unless it is raining heavily we will go outside.