Today a snail joined our online class. I took the children (my computer) out to the vegetable garden to find a snail then brought him back inside. We looked carefully at him and used lots of fabulous words to describe him. While we had the snail right there we wrote stories about him. They had something right in front of them, something tangible that they could describe.
This was the most effective online writing session so far. The best thing was that their stories contained multiple ideas. Up until now, I was finding it difficult to get more than a sentence from them. There was so much to say about the snail e.g., his shell, how he moved, the slime, the feelers...
We put him back outside but he didn't want to go and climbed back inside the door.
He wants to be in Room 2 too!
Here is the snail and our fabulous stories.
