In anticipation of Halloween our class has been working on a pumpkin writing activity. First, we brainstormed and created a success criteria that outlined the necessary items needed for the construction of our paper pumpkins and our writing. The students decided each pumpkin would need a name, have teeth, be orange, be a certain size (tall/short), and make us feel an emotion when we see them (happy, smile, etc.)
Next, the students went ahead and created their own pumpkins using construction paper. Then, we looked at our pumpkins and wrote sentences for each of the items in our success criteria. As a group we wrote one sentence at a time. We reviewed how to write a proper sentence using an upper case letter at the beginning of a sentence and a period at the end. We also talked about how we need finger spaces between words. The students worked very hard on this writing task! Our first sentence tells what our pumpkins name is. Our second sentence tells what colour our pumpkin is and describes it's size (tall/short/round/small, etc.). Our third sentence tells how many teeth our pumpkin has. Our last sentence tells how our pumpkin makes us feel (happy, smile, giggle, etc.). Please take a look at some of our finished work below.
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