Week 1 - Memory Boxes

 This week the children were learning how to write lines in a poem called My Memory Box.  We watched this clip for motivation.

The Magic Box

I taught the children that we include adjectives to describe the verbs and nouns.  We took a boring sentence.  "In my memory box I will put a swim at the pool" and brainstormed adjectives to describe the words swim and pool.  The children then created their own sentences.

Then the children wrote their own memory box sentences.  The created a memory box and put the sentences inside.  Here are the finished memory boxes...