Writer's Workshop

Every day we participate in Writer's Workshop.  We follow the Lucy Calkins Units of Study writing program.  It is my students' favorite time of the day.  Occasionally we have an event like a field trip that prevents us from having our writer's workshop but these little writers beg for writing time when we get back. We have completed the first Narrative until and are onto our second narrative unit.  The next two units are How To Books and Persuasive writing.
We have learned how to:
     * generate ideas
     * "when we are done we have just begun"
     * what writer's workshop sounds like
     * stretching out words
     * making scrolls and books
     * practicing storytelling
     *editing

Here is a quick video of the kiddos during writing time -