Silly Spelling Stories V

                  The Haunted Sausage Laughed in His Awesome Saucer Made Out of Laundry... 

Dear Reader,

In Silly Spelling Stories V, we composed our stories a little differently:  instead of taking a look at our word list and then launching into our story,  we took the  Refrigerator-Poetry-Magnets approach.

We  first cut out our words and sorted them into nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Next, we spent a patient (!)  half-hour moving them around into different combinations on an 11x17 piece of paper. As interesting word combinations emerged and a story began to take form, we taped down our words and added text with a pencil.  We hope that these stories are, for you, more interesting, more surprising, and more enjoyable. It has been fun to mix vocabulary, story-writing, and nine-and-ten-year-old humor.

-  Mr. B's Spellers

Silly Spelling Stories IV

April 11, 2010

Dear Silly Writers,

We have time for one more story before  Spring Break. I can see that your imaginations are alive and humming! 

Now, for this story, please:
1) capitalize your titles and  all names.
2) make sure your sentences make sense (have a subject and a verb).
3) once you've written it, try to rework your story and your sentences so it all  make more sense as a story. Olivia did this in her last post. Take a look at it.
4) have fun!

Silly Spelling Stories III

Spring is here! The sap is flowing, and so are the nutty thoughts in my students' heads. Read on, and we sure appreciate you comments.

Mr. Bolger

For Ms. N's Book Group: Creating a Whangdoodle Dictionary

Ms. N's Book Group: you have been reading  Julie Andrews Edwards' book, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles. As you know, the story is about three kids who go on a fantastic (meaning full of fantasy) journey to find the last of the mystical Whangdoodles. The kids come upon places and beings and new ideas -- all with strange names.  YOUR CHALLENGE is to create a Whangdoodle Dictionary so the rest of us can better understand this great book.  Please post your terms and their definitions in the Comment section below. Good luck, Whangdoodlers!

- Mr. Bolger and Ms. N

Silly Spelling Stories II

This week, our five spelling groups learned the different ways to spell the /ow/ sound (thousand vs. coward); they learned  thr- and shr- words (thread and shriek...); and they learned  the many different  vowel + r spellings like search and pearl vs. worth and lurk and nerve. Finally, a couple of intrepid students studied the  /oy/ sound (noisy vs. destroy).  

Read on and enjoy!

- Mr. Bolger