Writing about our Playground

We read several of Donald Crew's books and talked about them as mentor texts.

          

We decided that Donald Crews must like transportation vehicles!  We supposed that he observed the places where the vehicles were to get more information to write.  He must have looked at the vehicles and listened to them.  We also noticed that he used a few words and that he placed the words at the bottom of the page.  He also liked to use colors and details in his illustrations.

For our writing piece, we chose chose a place that we loved at school - the playground. First, we observed the playground and took some notes about what we saw, what we heard, and the actions that took place there.  I took a picture of the students on the playground. Later, they wrote sentences about what they saw, what they heard, and what actions took place at the playground.  They glued their black and white photograph to the top of the large writing paper.  They added color to their picture and extended the playground to the entire space.

For some additional fun and learning, we designed a playground for an ant a few days later. I showed the children a few ways to fold paper to make it 3D.  They took off on the idea and added many ways of their own.  

 

 Enjoy!   Molly