Learning Never Stops

So much depends  on words  that you speak tempered by your tone embellished by the  curve  of your brow adorning your telling eyes. I love teaching poetry, and yes, you have rightly guessed...this is a sorry imitation of William Carlos Williams', The Red Wheelbarrow . But when days are dolesome, I ride on the wings of poesy and create my own.  So educators! How do you address your students when you are upset? http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/angry-owl-michael-rutkowski.jpg

These last 2 weeks have been busy. The students were introduced to the writing process and it took us over a week to get some pieces published. Though I felt quite drained by the end of it, the end result had me rubbing my hands in glee. Their final published work, (though still with a few minor errors), was a work of art! :) I am so proud of my little ones. Not only did the students learn about underlining verbs and nouns and adding resepective adverbs and adjectives, they also had to show when to use commas and quotation mark. Having created a checklist right at the beginning of the work shop helped them stay focused. All the skills they learnt during the course of this term were put to use. Using energetic sentence starters, adding new words from the word wall, and using the thesaurus were among some skills they had to exhibit. Here are some shots of my students at work. Where do you start a paragraph? 2nd draft The writing process, along with...