Free Writing Time: Amy

Very fond of this girl. She's addicted to her dictionary/thesaurus though and often uses phrases like "declare math contempt" or " school delegate excursion". Here are her less than thesaur-iffic titles:

Free Writing Time: with Jerry

As promised, I have 6 posts queued up from one of my favourite ESL classes. Free Writing Time was the brilliant idea of fellow teacher Michaela, where the students write non-stop about anything for 10 minutes. Don't be fooled, these posts may be silly and good for a giggle, but it really is one of my smartest classes. They are all in Grade 3 and their comprehension is wonderful, we're just working on their writing!

Note: Some posts will be pics, but I decided to re-write others as I am not sure they would be easily read in a photo. I have resisted the urge to make any changes and anything that seems weird is because I've done my best to re-create how they actually wrote it.

Jerry wrote a poem one day:

Children's Verse
title: test

every children mind
is tep tep tep
Because test score
every children say
sigh~sigh~sigh~
and Score 100 every
children olleh But
70, 80 score every children
cry~cry~cry

Costco: not just a one stop shop,

but your last stop shop. Like, last of your life:

i die

I figured this was worth me shamefully making my way back to this poor little neglected blog. Stay tuned for a mini-series of posts from students' writing. I have been making some classes "free-write" for 10 minutes a week. Hilarious.