Writer's Workshop Publishing Party

Publishing Parties

Our elementary classrooms have been busy publishing and celebrating their hard work as writers during the past two weeks.  Writer’s workshop has become a popular time of day in our K-3 classrooms.  Two of the 2nd grade classrooms invited parents or special guests to attend their publishing party this week.  They had just finished their first unit with realistic fiction.  Sometimes its not so easy for parents to take off work or they must stay at home with little ones.  I was thrilled when Victoria invited me as her guest.  I taught Victoria last year and I knew writing was one of her favorite activities.  

Victoria reminded me all week to come and she couldn’t stop talking about her Cinderella story and the dress she illustrated for Cinderella. I was so impressed as I attended the party and the students shared what they had been working on.....  juicy words (adjectives), exciting leads, using dialogue and interesting endings.  

The students published their stories in a book format with a cover, author page, and a story summary for the back. Or as Victoria said “no its not a summary its called a BLURB”!   It was a great blurb about Cinderella on the back!  :) 

The students were real authors that made real books and they had a real audience to celebrate with.  It is so important to celebrate a student’s success even when at times it seems so simple and unimportant.  Cheering a child on and showing them that their school activities are important can make a big difference to a young child!  It took 20 minutes of my time and it was the best part of my entire day.  Way to go 2nd graders -your stories were AMAZING.

CELEBRATE your child’s success!!  

Happy Reading-Mrs. Speake