Check out the new PAGES!

The PAGES links at the top of the blog are the resources you need for our end-year writing projects!

The WORDLES will also help with a reminder!

Ties That Bind

Write a paragraph describing a relationship you value and want to strengthen. Include reasons you value this relationship and the reasons you want to strengthen it.

Teach an old dog new tricks. . .

New inventions and ideas or changing cultural influences continually add new words to our language.
Assemble a list of new words or new meanings for old words that have entered common usage within the last
generation.
Ask an adult about common words from his/her own childhood that are now seldom used.

Snarfblatt? Scrumdiddlyumptious?

Create and define your own new word.
Think of an object, a situation, or behavior that you think needs a single new word all its own.

What's your big idea?

The frindle is just one of Nick's great ideas.
Brainstorm about ways you could improve your own school.
How can you turn your ideas into action?