Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Chocolate Cake, Pics, and an Arun to Celebrate!

Today I join my fellow bloggers in "serving up a slice" 
to the Tuesday Slice of Life sponsored by 
Two Writing Teachers.

During each week in March I selected a random day to share orange slice candy with my students.  It was a sweet salute to the March Slice of Life Story Challenge sponsored by Two Writing Teachers.

On Monday, the last day of our March marathon of writing, we enjoyed a chocolate sheet cake in each class inscribed with the words, "Happy Day Slicer!"  I wanted to write "slicers," but the powers that be decreed only one letter "s" in my set of sugar letters.  I realize now that I could have switched the inscription to read "Happy Day Writers."
I love the beautiful smiles on my writers' faces!
My 1/2 block of platinum slicers - 31 days of writing daily!
My 4/5 block of platinum slicers - 31 days of writing daily!















A platinum slicer celebrates his arrival at the finish line!






One
orange 
slice a week
celebrates our
marathon in March.
On
Monday
chocolate
cake sweetens a
last day of slicing!
We
listen,
discover,
and notice more
moments to savor.

               

I couldn't leap into poetry month without an attempt  at capturing our celebrations in an arun, a fifteen-line poem in three sets of five lines. Each set of five lines follows the same syllable structure: starting with one syllable and increasing by one (1/2/3/4/5 — 3x). Explore this form with GirlGriot who introduced it to me. See my inaugural attempt here and last week's poem savoring sunshine at Slater Beach here.

2 comments:

  1. Your students indeed look happy. You do a lot for your students, Ramona. Congrats to you & to your students for 31 days! I like the poem, & thanks for explaining how the arun works! Have a great rest of the week!

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  2. Ramona,
    Congrats to you and your students on such an amazing accomplishment. We had our celebration lunch today. The students had so much to say. I loved how easily they all talked about their favorite pieces of writing from the challenge. I'm thinking about taking the favorites and combining them in one resource.

    I enjoyed your poem. I may have to borrow that structure if you don't mind. It might be an interesting one to try this month.

    Cathy

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