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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Book Series Sharing!

We must have had some technical difficulties...this should have been posted on April 23!

Now that we have finished writing our books series, we met with our buddies to share them. Miss McNamara and her fourth graders were BLOWN AWAY by our writing! We are all very proud! 

Editing and Revising


We are in the process of publishing one of our CHAPTER BOOKS! Today we are working with our writing partner to edit and revise. We know that two heads are better than one!



Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Creating Our "Box Sets"

Today we are working on our "box sets!" Everyone brought in a cereal box to decorate and house their book series. Get excited! They will be coming home at the end of this unit! 

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Creating a Character

Believe it or not, your First Grader is starting their very own BOOK SERIES! During Writer's Workshop we have been working to develop a character that we will base our book series around. We know that it is important for our readers to get to know our character, so we've been working hard to give our characters special personalities and characteristics. Here's what we need to know about our character before we begin our first book in the series: