Day 9, Creative Composers

We worked extensively in the lab conferences, revising, refining, and publishing our creative writing. There was alot of creative energy flowing in today in the Creative Composers Writing Workshop.

Camper Spotlight: Today, Julia and Alison worked on their stories that are connected to each other. Julia's character and Alison's character are best friends who attend school together.
Jennifer worked on her cat poems, who was inspired by her cat, Tyler.

Day 7, Wanna-Be Writers

We made dialogue and postcards. Also, we refreshed similes and metaphors.

Campers Spotlight: Nur shared her funny dialogue with me.

Day 7, Literacy Lab

Today we continued our Pirate Theme by writing a collaborative Class Pirate Adventure. We made pirate hats and then typed up our own Pirate Proviles. We played "pass the gold coin" ouside in the shade.


Camper's Spotlight:


Savannah's favorite camp was writing about the things she treasures most. 


Own enjoyed writing his story and the time he (as a pirate) went through a pond while on his trasure hunt adventure.

Day 7, Author Adventures

Our day began with some writing in which we used a diffferent point of view-that of a pencil. We wrote about our adventures of escaping from a pencil sharpener. Afterwards, we became poets and authored our own diamantes. Our morning finished with a few more writing pieces and then the computer lab.

Camper Spotlight:

Zachariah- "The diamante because it made me think hard."

Lucas- "I like the diamante because it is fun to draw in different shapes."

Day 7, Comedy Writers

Campers started the day by completing their original comedy sketches. Then it was practice, practice, practice! We practiced our character monologues and original comedy sketches. Characters are beginning to come alive. Please remember to practice and memorize scripts at home.

Campers Spotlight: William sang opera for us today and Ahbishek, Chloe, and Anika performed their skit which has a very demanding restaurant customer.

Day 6, Creative Composers

Today we enjoyed Writer's Circle and Author's Craft discussion.  We set writing workshop goals for developing creative writing that we started last week. 


Cijin worked on developing a strong introduction to her story about Rude Isabella by writing a character profile descriptive paragraph with lots of showing details and specific examples.  This is to help the reader imagine right at the start of the story just how rude Rude Isabella is and wonder what might happen in the story.

Day 6, Literacy Lab

Our theme today was all about pirates!


We read three cool books about pirates and learned lots of things.  We began developing a pirate adventure story, filled out a "Pirate Profile," and then made our own Treasure Map with places we really like.  


We went on a Pirate Treasure hunt, following clues throughout the campus.  We mapped our path and worked on sequencing in deciding what came first, second, third, etc.  


Camper highlights:
Pirate gold coins are Sam's favorite treasure!
Dominic's pirate's name is Captain Blue Seas!