Picture Wednesday #15 - Hair Dryer

"Hair Dryer"

*This is the fifteenth Wednesday of our year together and that means it is "Picture Wednesday".

*We are in the final days of our 2016 school year.  We don't celebrate any specific holiday before our "Winter Break" but I like to do a variety WINTER activities in the days leading up to the break.

*When I ran across this image last year, I used it for the first time.  The writers enjoyed writing about it so I decided to use it again this year.  

*I set aside time during each day for us to work in our writer's notebooks. 

*Each Wednesday I feature a photograph, image, or graphic.  My goal is to have my writers do some thinking, reflecting, and writing about the image.

*We talk about what types of writing we can do in the notebook.  Here are some of the possibilities...

-What we notice in the image

-What we wonder about

-Connections we have to the picture

-Thoughts, feeling, emotions about the visual

-Reminders we have from the image

-Create a fiction story about the picture

*Once the image is revealed to the writers, we spend a few minutes "talking" about what we see.

*My writers set up their HEADING in the notebook and we get busy writing.

*During the start-up of the year, I have my students write for about five minutes.  We slowly build our stamina for writers and slowly add time to our writing block. 

*At the end of the individual writing time, we call on a few volunteers to share their actual writing and/or further thoughts about the visual in front of us.

Our Images from 2016-2017...  

Week #1 - Back to School -                              Click Here to See IMAGE
Week #2 - Be Kind to Others -                         Click Here to See IMAGE
Week #3 - Be Safe -                                          Click Here to See IMAGE
Week #4 - Be Responsible -                              Click Here to see IMAGE
Week #5 - Animal Friendship -                         Click Here to See IMAGE
Week #6 - A Helping Hand -                            Click Here to See IMAGE
Week #7 - A Running Jump -                           Click Here to See IMAGE
Week #8 - Stand-UP/Unity Day -                     Click Here to See IMAGE 
Week #9 - Home Sweet Home -                       Click Here to See IMAGE
Week #10 - Camouflage -                                 Click Here to See IMAGE
Week #11 - Dream Big-                                    Click Here to See IMAGE
Week #12 - Sidewalk Biking -                          Click Here to See IMAGE
Week #13 - HUG -                                            Click Here to See IMAGE
Week #14 - Happy Frog -                                  Click Here to See IMAGE