Friday, March 9, 2012

Slice of Life Day 9

After reading The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Pinkwater I put a blob of orange on a piece of paper and asked each student to turn it into something and write about it.  This was my favorite story by my wonderful student Matt:
     Once there was an artist dragon.  He always had a cigar in his mouth.  One day he didn't know what to paint, so, he just splattered orange on paper!  It inspired him to paint a chunk of meat! Fin!
   One of our read alouds this year ended in Fin instead of the end and he always writes that now with a flourish across the bottom of his stories.  I love it!

2 comments:

  1. This may well be my favorite children's story...I love having children imagine what they will do to "make lemonade from lemons," to improve things when things go wrong/unexpected. What a funny, witty story idea by Matt!

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  2. How adorable that he uses a mentor text for his writing. Creative activity.

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