Today I taught the second graders. We have been over the
writing process many times, so I made a plan to do something creative. I read
about one of my fellow teaching students making brochures for informational
writing. Then I thought about a night when my roommates and I just cut and
collaged pictures. So I followed up my teacher’s nature cycle lesson with
another one. The students cut pictures out of magazines and pasted them into a continuous
cycle. This took the place of their pre-writing stage and they wrote a draft
describing their cycle. They loved the change of pace using scissors and glue
and pictures. It made their opportunity to write a little more exciting. I had
no issues in either of the two classes about using scissors correctly or
cleaning up. They behaved very well and stayed on task. I was nearly as excited
as they were to do something different, and I loved the cycles they turned out.
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