Stocking Descriptive Writing

As a fun homework project, the students decorated their own Christmas stocking. Then in class they wrote sentences to describe their stocking. They first brainstormed what it looks like, what it has, and what it can do on a Circle Map. They then transfered those ideas to a Tree Map which they used to write their sentences. They wrote their final draft of stocking paper which was hung on the fireplace with their stocking art.

The Stockings Were Hung By the Chimney...

Last week the students had a fun homework assignment - decorate a holiday stocking. They could decorate the stockings however they wanted to with whatever they wanted to. Once returned to school, the students wrote about their stockings using our writing program, Write From the Beginning. The students wrote what the stocking looks like, what it has, and what it can do. We then attached their writing to their artwork and hung them outside on our fireplace. Our amazing Assistant Principal painted the fireplace for me a few years ago.