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!
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!
ReplyDeleteHow adorable that he uses a mentor text for his writing. Creative activity.
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