Week 12

I really enjoyed looking at the digital stories last week.  The ones we watched in class were very interesting and the voices in the stories were very powerful.  I am also excited to get to work on my published piece from my writers notebook.

Week 11

This week's field experience was very chaotic because the class I am in had a substitute.  It was very frustrating to realize how little would get accomplished today.

This week's class seemed to go extremely fast.  I like the idea of publishing one of our writings from our writers notebook and am pretty excited about my idea.  I also enjoyed looking at and hearing about the pictures people brought in. 

Week 10

It was really fun seeing everyone's multi genre projects this week.  It was interesting to see all the different types of writing that are possible and that kids can be exposed to in the classroom.  I wish we could of presented them individually in front of the class so we could've seen everyones best presentation, but with such a large class and time constraints setting them up around the room worked almost as well.

Week 9

Today was very fun I really enjoyed reading the story with the four voices.  I thought it was interesting to see the different points of view from the different characters in the story.  It was also fun picking a different character and writing what they were thinking during the story.  With this we were able to see what the bit only the different points of view from other characters that didn't have a vioce in the story but we also got to here how other people would portray these voices differently.

Week 8

Looking at and evaluating our journals last week was very helpful.  Many of my entries are stories and rants.  I always seem to forget that we can write anything we want in our journals.  If I would remember this writing in my journal wouldn't be such a chore.  I think the main problem is that I am stuck in the ways of how I have used journals for other classes. 

Week 7

Looking at the different articles in the newspaper was a cool idea.  I had never consider there to be so many different types of articles in a newspaper.  It also gave me some good ideas about my multigenre project.  I really enjoyed doing the public service anouncement and I think it could be a neat part of my multigenre project.

Week 6

As a teacher of writing I haven't really taught any writing yet other than teacher students how to sound out letters.  The kindergarten classroom's writing lessons mainly consist of them drawing at this point and sounding at simple letters to label their pictures.  It is very interesting to see the students trying to write and spell the best they can.  Many of the students can sound out the letters to get the basic letters in a word correct but they lack the skills to know about things such as silent "e".