KF: All About Me and Emma

We have been doing an illustration study and have learned ways writers use pictures to move their story along. You will notice Kylie's story is mostly pictures because she wants you to get certain feelings as you read her story. Pay particular attention to page 4; here she illustrated the lunchroom with a technique writers use. She zoomed out so you saw her alone in the GIGANTIC cafeteria all alone and hoped you'd get a certain feeling. Did you? What feeling was she trying to convey?

BG: Different Kinds of Things Page in fiction

We learned that you can have a Different Kinds of Things page in both fiction and nonfiction.

Allie's list of things to try as a writer.

What plans do you have for your next project?

We sent our package to Ireland!

Decorating our box of treats for our friends

Our tweeps in Ireland (@mrquinnsclass) sent us some Irish treats and we're sending them some American ones! Some of the things we sent were Twizzlers, Cheez-Its, PayDays, Peeps, Turtles, Almond Joys, Sour Patch Kids, DumDum suckers, and Blow Pops, just to name a few. We are SO excited to see what they think of our treats and what they sent us!

Ohhhhh my!

Oh, Superkiddos, I hope you're having a great day! I had the stomach flu last night and there was NO WAY I could come in today. Hopefully I'll see you tomorrow!

Our treats from Ireland!

Click HERE to get to Mr. Quinn's blog in Ireland and get a sneak peek at the treats we'll be getting!

We are getting a surprise package from Ireland!

Hey Superkiddos! We didn't know this since our Internet has been down all day, but Mr. Quinn's class has ALREADY SENT their Irish treats to us! After Ian went to bed I checked Twitter and they'd blogged about it...I tried to link it to our blog for you, but my iPad wouldn't do it and Mr. Overman left our other computer at work. Boo! I think you're going to LOVE what they're sending...and we're all going to be surprised too!