Day 2 at Camp

Today is the second day of Creative Writing Camp.  We continued our theme of “family” today.  Activities were a letter writing project, that Coalfield Writers Teacher Consultant Judy Southard lead.  Another activity they did was create “mail boxes” of their own design, and students used them today, and will use them all week to send “positive” postcards to each other when they hear a good piece of writing.  We read When the Relatives Came and did a writing, and we also read My Rotten Read Headed Brother and did a piece of writing from that.  There were mini lessons on adjectives, parts of speech, and letter writing.  We’ve reviewed the camp songs and closed out the afternoon by playing a LIFE STORIES game.  In this game the object is to land on a space, draw a card from the pile that matches the space, and tell the kind of story that the card calls for.  We had a couple students absent today, and one who was absent yesterday came today.  Our counselor, Brittany B was absent today because she’s sick and we missed her.  Overall it is a TERRIFIC day at camp.