Mrs. Huff's Stuff: Authors and Artists Writing Club!: Paragraph Writing: Backwards Land

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Paragraph Writing: Backwards Land

The "Awesome Authors and Artists" class practiced perfect paragraph writing by writing mini-travel brochures for an imaginary city, state, country, island..... whatever they could imagine! They were taught how to vary sentence their patterns and focus on subjects like:

~ climate

~ day-to-day life

~ culture

~ type of land

~ animals

And more!

Mrs. Huff's "Florida" turned into "Adirolf...." a winter wonderland with fresh snow in the morning, sunshiny days, and the opportunity to participate in winter sports all year long. Can you figure out how these students named their places??

Enjoy these paragraphs and book your tickets today!

Eropagnis

by Annika (5th grade)

Eropagnis is a wonderful, fancy island that is relaxing and unique. It is fun on the amazing beach side, but very fancy with the latest products all over the place. Everyone drinks with their pinkies up, showers in the morning, and wakes up by 7:00 AM sharp. The president is a royal panda, and everyone lives in a mansion. Eropagnis always welcomes visitors. It's located on the Equator and Prime Meridian. Book your flight to Eropagnis today and enjoy and amazing vacation!

Sirap

By Ashley (3rd grade)

Sirap is a musical place with beautiful mountains. Each night, the band will play fun tunes. Every person in Sirap plays a musical instrument. When tourists come, they love to dance to the music. Book your tickets now and boogie with the Sirapians!

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About the Teacher

Mrs. Huff has taught Language Arts for over 20 years. After being a classroom teacher for 12 years, she chose a new career path in teaching writing workshops and tutoring in order to stay home with her young children. She loves teaching creative writing, reading, and grammar. She specializes in teaching elementary school grades, but enjoys assisting older students with their writing as well. She offers both in-person and online workshops and tutoring sessions. Mrs. Huff is Barton trained and certified, and has experience tutoring dyslexic students. She loves to see their growth and improvement in reading, writing, and spelling.

Mrs. Huff's hobbies include coaching volleyball, photography, scrapbooking, writing, and spending time with her family. She has a daughter and a son, both "graduates" from the "Authors and Artists" program!

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What Parents and Students have said about the workshop:

"The small group environment allowed for lots of personalized attention and immediate feedback. My daughter loved the workshop and came home raving about the creative writing assignments which included group, partner, and individual writing."

"It amazed me how my son was excited to stay after school for an academic-style club. Mrs. Huff made the classroom environment comfortable and light after a long day's work at school, yet encouraged hard work and focus and got the kids to produce great things. We loved the program!"

"I loved Mrs. Huff's teaching style and enthusiasm."

"I never thought I'd hear the words 'awesome' and 'writing' in the same sentence from my son, but that's what he said after the first class."

"My daughter absolutely loved the workshop. It made her think, and challenged her to write something different. She loves writing, and this gave her a scheduled time to do what she loves best with a teacher's guidance. Plus, she loved her teacher!"

"Authors and Artists is my favorite part of the day."

"This workshop is hard work..... but it's fun work!"

"I was very impressed with Mrs. Huff's manner with the children. There was a sense of mutual respect in the classroom between the teacher and students. The students were comfortable and worked hard, but had fun!"