Today starts the Slice of Life challenge. I introduced my students to the classroom Slice of Life challenge as well, and I was really happy to see how many of the kids were excited to try this. I think that they were more willing to try this when they found out that I am doing the adult challenge along with them. I had planned to have my students add their posts to a classroom blog, but unfortunately it is blocked on our school servers, so I had to come up with plan B. Luckily, I think plan B will work out better for the majority of the class anyway. I asked my students to just write for 10 minutes...about anything. I found that many of the students were more willing to do this if they could use a journal instead of blogging online...but I understand why. Sometimes just the act of physically writing something and having the option to draw and embellish is freeing. For my more artist students, I even said they could draw comics and cartoons. . As long as they are practicing writing, I believe they will benefit from this challenge. One student wrote about the lunch choice he chose for the day...it is interesting to see what makes 7th and 8th graders happy!
I look forward to reaching the 31 day challenge. I think I will be a better writer, and my students will all grow as a result as well!
I admire people who are doing the SLICE with their students. I'm a literacy coach in Colorado, have done the SOLS challenge myself for the last four (maybe five?) years, but I have never done it with kids. Maybe next year!
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