My Writing Experience

I sincerely appreciate the opportunity you have provided for me and my fellow students the past few weeks. The experience I have had with your fourth grade class has given me a sense of personal accomplishment while meeting the requirements for our writing unit. I have learned so much about your students and their ever growing writing abilities throughout my time with them. Although our time was limited, I am proud to say they have each grown as writers and as individuals.

Although they may have been weary at first, each student opened up to me in their own way. On day one, the students were very unsure of my new placement in the classroom. Who is this stranger and why are they teaching me? Being a very outgoing person I felt as if I helped ease their minds by showing them

I wanted these students to feel welcome to make mistakes and to open up to me as an instructor and as someone they can discuss their hero in detail about. Once the students were able to see that I was there to work but also to have fun, they began to open up. I was surprised actually at how open they became. Brianna for example was hesitant but shared with me and the rest of the group her mother's ongoing struggle with cancer. Although her writing was not very long, she packed it full of important details in a way that made sense to the reader. Ben was also very welcoming in regards to his family life, with his father serving in our US military Bens emotions towards his dad were hindered at first but through discussion and the use of a cluster map he was able to write down some of these emotions in his essay. Destiny and Lilly