TEXTing

We've been thinking hard about why it is important that we learn to write in Room 3, and sometimes it's hard to understand why we might need the skills of writing in the real world.

Today a group of us played a game which had us all writing frantically and having a big laugh while we did it. We ended up with pages and pages of writing because of it!

The idea of the game was to take away the "chore" of writing and help us see that one of the main importances of writing is communication.

We all received a blank sheet of paper and a felt pen, with the first instruction that we weren't allowed to talk. We pretended our piece of paper was our "cell phone" or "Ipad/tablet". Then we had to "communicate" by writing messages to each other.

Our own pieces of paper had our names on them so that when we passed our "phones" to the person we were contacting they knew who the message was from, and they would reply on our "phone" so that we ended up with big lists of messages to and from one another. Some people were getting bombarded with lots of messages at once, but they would pile them up and work through one message at a time.

This activity was great fun, and we will be doing it again in class with different topics for discussion. We had a lot of people think hard about the messages they were "sending", and some people were attempting to spell the sounds that our phones would make when receiving and sending a text.

We even have some smaller people very eager to get into the skill of "communicating" with writing so that they can join us next time.

Lucy finding peoples names on our Reading Buddy lists.

Kaedyn writing Mrs Hitchy a message.

Rahkai getting bombarded with messages.