This session we have been working on the long-term project of writing a children’s story and while doing so are learning how to develop a plot, characters, dialogue and setting. Some of the excerpts below are from a brainstorming session we had about our story topics. There are also some pieces written from free write prompts and poems about our names.
Marissa Holmes (left) and Khulan Myagmarsuren (right)
My Name Is...” poem
My name is Marissa
My name is made from the sea
I found my name in my mom’s tummy
My name can be in my mom’s head
If I lost my name I would keep looking for it in a storm sky.
-Marissa
Prompt: Students selected ten words from a list of thirty and had to write poems with these ten words in them, adding additional words if they liked.
Prompt: If I was as tiny as an ant…
If I was as tiny as an art, I would have a butterfly for a pet because you can use it for a vehicle. I will also have the biggest tree house of the rainforest. I would have three friends, the ladybug, caterpillar and the ladybug. They love to play with feathers and balls and bounce on the trampoline. One day they went on an adventure to the seashore. It was nice because they made friends with a crab.
-Khulan
Leilani (left) Cara (right)
Prompt:
My name is…
My name is made from…
I found my name in…
My name can be…
If I lost my name…
My name is Leilani
My name is made from my mom and my dad
I found my name in Hawaii and my mom
My name can tell something about Hawaii my mom and I
If I lost my name I could still know my full name
-Leilani
Prompt: Students selected ten words from a list of thirty and had to write poems with these ten words in them, adding additional words if they liked.
To find purple tiger bones
Shake glitter on glitter ribbons
Shake circle snow,
Then the rain washes it away.
Kiss money while looking
at wet violin,
Dance in a puddle
That looks like a river.
-Cara
Bridgette
Bedtime Story Brainstorm
Hello Kitty went to the mall and all the gifts were wrapped in shiny gold and silver paper. She didn’t buy anything, but went outside and saw Santa on his sleigh. Santa asked, “Do you want to ride a sleigh and give out presents?” Then a ghost came and got all the presents from Santa just as Hello Kitty was about to say yes. Hello Kitty tried to help Santa to get the ghost, but the ghost said, “Don’t hit me, I am a friendly ghost.”
-Bridgette
Koen (left) and Kolby (right)
"My Name is..." Poem
My name is Koen
My name is made from my mom’s brain
I found my name in the black hole
My name could wake up flowers
If I lost my name I would make Earth stop turning and the planets stop turning
-Koen
Bedtime Story Brainstorm
Once there was a person named Jack Furry. He was an inventor. When he read a book about heroes, he wanted to become one so he made a suit of armor for himself. He became the town hero and fought many bad guys. One day when he was fighting bad guys, aliens invaded. They called themselves Team Rocket. There were too many of them so he surrendered.
-Kolby
Spencer
Bedtime Story Brainstorm
I squeezed my eyes shut. I didn’t want to see someone put a make it alive spell on a 900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 year old Egyptian mummy. It looked like a Halloween scene but it was real. It was a real haunted house and it had a hospital and relaxing room.
-Spencer
Jennifer (left) and Natalia (right)
"My Name Is..." Poem
My name is Jennifer
My name is made from far away
I found my name on a tree
My name can do math
If I lost my name I would find it back from another place in the world
-Jennifer
My name is Natalia
My name is made from my mom’s and dad’s dream
I found my name in my Brazil grandma’s dream
My name can be the best in the world
If I lost my name I will still remember.
-Natalia