Writing News

11/13/25 In writing, we have worked on stretching sentences.  First we used questions of who, what, when, where, why to stretch them. We literally practiced making the longest sentences possible after answering these questions. Then we moved on to learning about adjectives (describing words), especially by thinking about our senses. How does something look, taste, smell, feel, and sound? Mrs. Boysen got into a snowball fight over this one!  Focusing on our senses can help us to have good describing words. We are working on adding those adjectives into sentences to expand them. After Thanksgiving, we will be writing an adventure about a disguised snowman.  We will practice the writing process of brainstorming, drafting, revising (adding details), editing, and creating a final piece.  We will do a personal narrative in January to end our narrative unit.

Today I sent home an adjective game for kids to play and practice learning more about adjectives.

10/13/2025  

When Mrs. Bosyen first came to class, we created get to know you butterflies.  Shortly afterwards, we have began a narrative unit.  We have used Mystery Writing to learn about story elements such as character, setting, problem (plot), and resolution. We have also talked about adding adjectives or details to make our stories more interesting.  Recently we wrote about something we are thankful for, specifically targeting brainstorming ideas to help make our final piece. Though this was not narrative writing, it was helpful to learn about brainstorming which is very useful to all kinds of writing.  Next we will continue to work on adding details, specifically studying how to stretch a sentence with those details (adjectives and answering the questions: who, what, when, where, and why.)

New Writing books went home to replace the old. I am asking all students to write at least a polished paragraph weekly.  They can write in their journal or use one of the books I gave them. They do  not need to write in each book. The idea was to provide a tool that might work for them and have one that provides information on narrative writers to help them as teachers become better instructors.  Misspelled words are to become their new spelling words lists.  Students are counseled to write one day without correction and then to add details and improve their piece the next day before writing a final draft. 

Suggested Schedule:  Write one paragraph/story per week.  Please put time into it!

Day 1:  brainstorm ideas and write first draft

Day 2:  add details and develop the paragraph’s ideas more fully.  

Often asking who, what, when, where, and why can help a student stretch 

their sentences and expand their ideas in a story or paragraph.

Day 3:  Create the final piece, including editing for punctuation, grammar, and spelling.

This is a suggested schedule. Sometimes a story needs another day or two, but plan to be writing and editing each writing piece fully and to be writing every day you do at home learning. You can do the finalized writing in a composition book or on a separate piece of paper if you prefer.