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Read It Here First! A Potpourri of Writing from Benito Juarez Elementary

Over the past few months, our 3rd, 4th & 5th graders at Benito Juarez Elementary in Richmond, California took their inspiration from letter writing (to their future selves), Mad Libs, portraiture and more! Sample some of their work below!

Students wrote from a prompt: "When I woke up this morning..." (work from Alondra, Chris D. & Abdiel)

Students "painted a portrait" - with words AND drawing! (Work from Ximena, Nataly & Rem)

Students wrote letters to themselves - in the future. (Work from Victor, Eli, Diego & Celeste)

Students wrote 10 interesting things about themselves, then chose one to turn into a story (Work from Shanae, Supreet & Itzel - 2 parts)

Students explored "Things I Know to Be True" (Work from Miguel & Christopher C.)

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Why Not Write Wednesday: Every Picture Tells A Story

Every Wednesday our creative writing prompt encourages you to take up your pen and indulge your author self!

For today, we are using pictures created by Hengki Lee to inspire our writing.  Lee is an Indonesian photographer who specializes in black and white silhouette images. This is what he had to say about his images, "The Idea behind my shots are simply about curiosity, dream, poetry and emotion. 'The beauty of being different' is the message I am trying to get across by portraying works which do not belong to the mainstream." You can see more of Lee's striking images on My Modern Met.

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Read It Here First! Taking flight with our John Muir Young Writers

For the past few months at John Muir Elementary in Berkeley, our third and fourth grader writers have focused on flight. They’ve learned about Amelia Earhart, bees, Daedalus and Icarus, and more. Explorations have included making movies in their minds of what it would be like to fly and imagining themselves up high in the blue sky, buzzing around as bees, airplanes and more.

Enjoy a sample of their work - get ready for take off! (Pictures are enlarged so you can read the work in the writer's own hand.)

Crash Landing!
Paloma imagined she was Amelia Earhart and wrote a letter to her sister as her plane crashed to earth.

The Phoenix

Aeris wrote a poem describing the flight of the phoenix featured in the Harry Potter series.

Where’d Everybody Go?

Nohelia wrote a story about a bee who woke up one morning to find that his friends had left him behind.

DEAR PLANE

Simon imagined he was Amelia Earhart and wrote a letter of appreciation to his plane.

How Do They Do it?

During a free write period (when writers may choose to write about anything s/he wishes), Sophie wrote about the power the color pink has over some people.

Choose Your Own Adventure

T.J. wrote about a bee who wakes up to find all the other bees are gone!

Bees!

After learning about bumblebees, Bodi explored the world outside the hive.

The Wonders of Childhood

Gavi wrote about why she loves childhood so, so much.

I love being a kid. Maybe its that bouncey feeling where you feel like jumping of the walls. Or maybe it's hearing your parents complaining about stuff you don't have to worry about. But I think its the wild, out of control way of living. Just runing and breathing in the fresh air.

No limits. No one to draw the line. No rules. But most of all no rages.

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TMWFI! After School: Brave Writers at Bret Harte

This year "Take My Word For It!" began a partnership with Oakland Leaf to create an After School Writers' Workshop for Bret Harte students. The students are embracing their creativity, taking some risks with their writing and writing here, there and everywhere.

To learn more about Oakland Leaf and their important community work check out their website.

 

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Read It Here First! Peek into words at King Harrington School

Although snow delayed the spring session at King Harrington School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, our young writers are off to a great start! They've begun to show their love of writing through 6 word messaging, poetry & Valentines!

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Read It Here First - Thornhill Food Poets

Our students' at Thornhill Elementary have been enjoying some food writing. We hope you enjoy this tasty tribute and a very special recipe.

Ava

Ava

Aiden

Aiden

Jack

Jack

Ode to Ice Cream
by Jake
Oh sweet icey ice cream.
You are a color of many flavors.
You look like a big chunk of ice,
ice cream.

by Jake

by Jake

Recipe of Me
by Alanna

a table spoon of dog,
a cup of Minecraft,
two cups of cops 'n robbers,
a tablespoon of musician,
a spoonful of "playful",
two table spoons of "shugar",
three spoons of gamer,
one spoon of sister, now
mix well. Preheat the oven
to 100 degrees for 10 minutes. "Rince" her and
let her dry for 15 minutes. Then
you have a Alanna! [sic]

by Alanna

 

 

 

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