I was so excited for
today to begin because today is the start of Kate Messner’s summer writing camp for teachers and librarians. Yes, you read that right a writing camp for TEACHERS.
I am beyond excited (you can still sign up too).
The first assignment is
to make a “writing plan for the summer and school year.”
This
one’s pretty easy for me because about three years ago I did just that. My
summer writing plan involves early mornings and my patio. I set my alarm for
5:30, get on the treadmill by 5:45, walk for 20-30minutes, fix my diet pepsi,
grab my notebook and the dogs, and head for the backyard and my patio. I am usually
writing by 6:30. I write for thirty minutes to an hour (or more).
The
school year is a little harder. I have writing workshop every day in my
classroom. The first ten minutes after the mini-lesson everyone writes,
including the teacher! So for ten minutes during the school day I (and my
kiddos) have uninterrupted writing. It’s then time for workshop, conferring,
and creating so my writing stops (mostly) and the kiddos continue on.
I’m
sure my evenings will be filled with writing this school year because I’ll have
that empty house thing going on so I will have time each evening before bed to
carve out some time.
Another
great part of this camp is that you get to travel and visit different places
(ok blogs). Mondays are made for warm-ups and are brought to you via Jo Knowles. Each
Monday she is getting us excited about writing with some great ideas of what to
write about.
This
week the warm up is to write about a childhood kitchen. This one is easy for
me. I’m writing about my grandma’s kitchen on my grandparent’s farm in Kansas.
Here is a picture of my cute new notebook I got just for this project, and here
is the beginning of my journey.
I
hope you decide to attend camp with Kate this summer; there is still time to
sign up. I’ve never been to camp before. I hope it’s not too deep or over my
head… Because
here I come, I’m jumping in- pen in hand!
************** DISCLAIMER****************
I will also be joining Mrs. Wills Kindergarten June 22nd for her book study of Katie Wood Ray’s book In Picture's and in Words
(you should too) It’s the next
best thing since I am not going to get to see here in Indiana this summer
(trying to use my stiff upper lip here). Life happensJ So just so you know I
may or may not be breaking some blogging rules this
summer by blogging more
than once a day, I may even blog THREE times in one day. I know, I’m sorry. But you
can’t say you weren’t warned!
I enjoy your posts, so post like the wind!
ReplyDelete❀ Tammy
Forever in First
Oh, I love a new notebook - polka dots too? Perfect! Sounds like you have made some time for you to write. I know you've got some ideas up your sleeve and I hope you take this opportunity to write your heart out! Glad to be on another journey with you!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds very cool!
ReplyDeleteTammy, I like your new design, but actually miss the old title. You'll always be Klinger Cafe to me! I love that you're going to camp, too. There are quite a few slicers doing this. Happy writing-I'll look for every post!
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