Our first few sessions of Writer's Workshop have been amazing! We began by making a "map of our heart" to show all of the activities and people that are important to us. This helped us to brainstorm all different things that we can write about during our writer's workshop time. Now no one can say, "I don't know what to write" because we have a whole heart full of ideas! The day after creating our heart we got right to work on our writing. During our mini-lesson we learned that writer's THINK, DRAW, LABEL and then WRITE. We watched Mrs. Cowen model how to do this and then we tried. We were very focused and we all did our best. We worked independently to get pictures and words on our paper even when it was hard. We didn't ask the teacher how to spell things, but instead worked to sound out words on our own. At the end of our Writer's Workshop time, we came together as a group and several of our friends shared their fabulous writing with their peers. Great job firsties!!