Writing Workshop

Writing is my absolute favorite subject to teach. Mostly because when I first started teaching Writing scared the ba-jezus out of me! I had no clue what I was doing and was basically just doing prompt writing (don't judge, those kids are successfully in middle school now...almost high school now that I think about it...). Thankfully the next year my grade level team decided to start using Lucy Calkin's Writing Workshop texts, my third year we expanded to all classes K-2 using it, and then my 4th year we were using it school-wide K-5, and we haven't looked back since. I know there are some critics out there that worry about the lack of the mechanics piece in Lucy Calkins, and that is something every school/grade level/teacher has to work out on their own, but my 8 year-olds are writing AMAZING stories that are expressive and entertaining and interesting and they TOTALLY get what writing is all about, and I wouldn't trade that for all the grammar lessons in the world. So there.

Anyway, I just wanted to share a story one of my students wrote recently. *WARNING* Reading this story may make you wet your pants so go get the Depends....

The "blurb" on the back of his book: