Collaborative Writing

For the first two weeks of this term, we have been 'working on writing' during the Daily 5. We have been using google drive on the iPads write creative stories in small groups via a shared document. We had to overcome a few hurdles - like what do we do when two people want to write in the document at once. We figured out a way to take turns and work in smaller groups rather than the whole class. Here are some of the stories we've written:

Mermaids

Once upon there was four mermaids.They wanted to live on land but they could not.There was a bad mermaid that lived under the sea. One mermaid came to the bad mermaid but the other mermaids saw her and said stop! Then the mermaid heard them so she swam as fast as she could away from the bad mermaids and they lived happily ever after.

Monsters

We are monsters. We are hungry. We will eat Seth and James. So the 4 monsters go turn Seth and James into ice cream. "That was yummy." then they said “dumdum!Dum!!DUMM!! because they loved Seth and James ice cream.

Smurfs

One day there were 1000s and 1000s of smurfs.One day papa smurf set them off on a journey. He wanted to make a potion. Right at that moment a smurf rang immediately he started talking . "Papa smurf there has been a mistake the enemy Is chasing us. I'll  come get ya." he said.

Our next step is to learn about narrative structure, characters, setting, problem and solution so that our stories have a beginning, middle and a end. Good thing we are writing narrative later this term!!

Now for work on writing we are going to put some of our learning about descriptions to the test by writing some Guess who? Descriptions. Watch the kids blog, in a few weeks to see if you can guess who we are describing!