Today was the first day of creative writing camp 2007. We had 26 students enroll, and today 19 attended. We have three facilitators: Karen Dillon, Lynda McKnight, and Pam Roeher. They are a fabulous teaching team from Holden Elementary. We also have one camp counselor here today, Brittany Balentine. She was a student in my Creative Writing Class this year.
The theme for camp this year is “Family”. We started out the morning by talking about all the various forms families take. Lynda shared the story of her son, Phillip’s family, and how Phillip was adopted by his grandparents. Karen and Pam talked about their extended families, and their grandchildren. I talked about my dog, who I call “the baby” , probably too much. The point was for all of us to realize that no matter what form our family takes there is no such thing as a “normal” family – we all have differences.
The first writing of the day was a prose piece in which the students wrote about the form their families take. The second piece of writing as to use the theme song lyrics and music from the Addam’s Family show and transform it into a song about families. Students worked in small groups for that one. The third writing of the day was an acrostic poem for the word family. We didn’t get many of those published on the blog, but they are published on the front sidewalks at Logan High, where sudents wrote them. That was the student’s major publishing event of the day. We’ll also be working on book marks at the end of the day today.
We’ve had some breakfast and lunch, and some snacks, and we’ll be working hard the rest of the week. I invite you to click on the camper’s names on the right side of the blog to find pieces written by specific campers. We hope all who read our camp blog will enjoy it!
