4th+Grade+Workshop+1

=Today, Mr. Brian Fox came into our classroom to teach a lesson that combined science and writing. He used his book as an example about how to make a food chain come to life in a story. We started the process by making a web about the characters and animals in our food chain story (i.e. a circle of circles). Then we meditated for about two minutes as to what our story was going to be about. This helped us learn to think deeply about what we wanted to write in our stories. Next, we told what we visualized to our partner. When we were listening to the story, our actions and facial expressions gave the reader clues as to what parts of the story were interesting or needed improvement. If we smiled, then the reader knew to keep that part in. After telling our stories, we started to write them down on paper. The important thing that Mr. Fox stressed to us was to add DETAILS. He said that amphibians live in two worlds where they like to swim through the water and walk on dry land as opposed to just saying amphibians live in two places. We had a great time learning and we are looking forward to another day of Mr. Fox.=