How important is writing??

It is that time of year again where we put on our thinking caps and brainstorm away. This will be Kayla's second story submission to PBS and their writing story contest. Last year, she won first place for second grade in the entire state of Arizona with her story "Tom The Turkey!" This will be her last year to submit a entry as third grade is the highest entry level accepted. She first thought of a dolphin story then quickly came up with the second book of "Green Aliens in Space." She has had writers block for part 2 of this book and all of a sudden the story came to her. She ran to me and said that she just wrote the story for part 2 of "Green Aliens in Space." What a great story it is and I am very proud of her. We then had to do some editing and page out the book and pictures to it. Kayla worked on her artwork today for about 3 hours and finished it up wonderfully. More pictures of that in a later post.
Now, this year Shae jumped in on the fun as well. She thought of a darling story about a flower named Emma and it is about how she wants to leave the garden that she is in and go inside the house with a little girl named Elisabeth. Pictured above is her many drawings of flowers to find the perfect Emma. Today, she worked on her art work as well and completed all her drawings for her story. Good job Shae!!!