Is your first grade learner a reluctant writer? This ongoing class will meet for 45 minutes once a week. The goal of this course is to help your learner to be a more confident writer. The First Grade Writing Center will review writing basics in fun and engaging ways. 

Warm Up Your Pencil
Each session will begin with a Warm Up Your Pencil activity or game. This will be a fun and low pressure way to get your learner moving more freely and comfortably with a pencil on paper. 

Skill Review
Next we will review a grammar or writing skill. 

Writing Practice
Learners will have independent writing time. Each class will end with sharing time, where the learners will be encouraged to share and encourage one another in their writing.

Each class is a stand alone class. Feel free to hop into First Grade Writing Center at any time!
 

Week of September 4: 
Complete Sentences Have a “Who?” and “Did What?”
What should I write about?

Week of September 11:
Stories Have Characters

Week of September 18:
Stories Have a Setting/ Write about a memory

Week of September 25:
Write a Story with a  Problem

Week of October 2 :
Stories Have a Beginning, Middle and End

Week of October 9: 
Using Onomatopoeia in Writing

Week of October 16:
NO CLASS, you will not be charged the fee for this week. (I have a family vacation.)

Week of October 23:
Creating Suspense In Your Writing

Week of October 30:
Details: Specific Nouns and Vivid Verbs

Week of November 6:
Use time words to show that time has past. Review past, present and future words.

Week of November 13:
Friendly Letters/ thank you cards

Week of November 21:
Dialogue: Speech bubbles and quotation marks

Week of November 27: 
NO CLASS, you will not be charged the fee for this week. (Thanksgiving week)


Week of December 4:
Poetry 1

Week of December 11:
Poetry 2

*End of Fall Semester