Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Excerpt from "I Am Helen. You Are Annie" by Katie Schrodt


Our little classroom family began to notice, to wonder, to observe, to realize, and to hide all of our treasures in our writer’s notebooks.  We began sharing stories, talking about family vacations and soccer practice.  We began laughing at the time we saw the smashed diaper in the parking lot when we were walking to the playground.  We stopped and observed the Stick Bug that Solomon found hanging on a tree limb.  We listened to the fears and hopes of our friends and shared our own dreams as well.  We were being hemmed together as a class, and the thread was writing.  These fragile five year olds were writing about everything from funerals of family members to their latest injuries to cooking with their moms to playing “Ninja” at recess. 
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Katie Schrodt received a B.S. from the University of North Texas and is currently working on her M.Ed. in literacy at Middle Tennessee State University.  She currently works in Franklin, Tennessee, at New Hope Academy

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