This Winter at West Portal Elementary, we’ve been exploring the theme of “secrets” using a variety of writing exercises such as secret recipes, secret identities, and secret codes. Take a look!
From an exercise where each student acted as a reporter and wrote a front page headline about their superhero and secret identity:
Blue Vulture in Town!
Last night the first national bank was robbed, but someone dressed as a vulture stopped the crime. Witnesses heard some fighting. The Blue Vulture punched a thug out the door. He nailed the second thug to the wall using his feathers. The last guy almost escaped. But the hero appeared in front of him. The police captured him. The hero kind of looked like Mike Lee, the reporter on the case!
-Skylar
From an exercise where each student choose a secret and expanded on it:
My dad is a secret agent
My dad secretly first goes to his secret lab and gets his gadgets. He was going to go to a crime scene but then his computer suddenly started beeping - there was a mission. Someone stole the Statue of Liberty! He dropped his water on the floor and suddenly left the base. He was on his way to New York - he was on time when the police were there. The criminal got away and the next day he came back to steal something else but then my dad caught him and sent him to jail!
-Bryan
From “Secret Recipes” where students create their own secret recipes using secret ingredients:
How to Make Weird Cake
How to Make Weird Cake
- Take one hair.
- Take one eyeball.
- Add a piece of Butterfinger.
- Make a piece of bone and put it in a soup.
- Bake it.
- When it’s done, take a knife and cut it.
-Stephanie
From an exercise where each student choose a secret and expanded on it in journal form:
The secret is: “a fairy lives in my room and sleeps under my bed”
Dear Journal,
I don’t like this fairy here. It’s very annoying because she’s talking all night. I want to tell my best friend Jenna, but I’m not sure what to say. The fairy’s curly hair keeps on tickling me. And her big teeth shine like the moon. Everywhere I go, she goes too. I feel worried about this thing here. I don’t really like the happiness that she gave me (or maybe it didn’t work.) I think I should make a trap. Then I’ll be very happy!
-Angel
From an exercise where each student acted as a reporter and wrote a front page headline about their superhero and secret identity:
Extra! Extra! Jump Up Girl Saves the Day!
Last night there was a bad guy. He went in to a spaceship and flew up into space. The space ship had a lot of money in it. But then the Jump Up Girl jumped into space. She can hold her breath for ten hours. So she jumped to space and pushed the spaceship down. Then the police came and arrested the bad guy.
-Zoe