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Posted by Robin L. Winston, Teacher
Dear 826LA staff,
A few days after our trip to 826LA, my 4th grade students wrote expository paragraphs about our experience there. These are three of the best, but all reflected enjoyment and relished in detail many aspects of the writing workshop. Thank you for a wonderful day, and we look forward to seeing you next year.
Sincerely, Robin L. Winston Mar Vista Elementary School
I have three favorite activities that we did at 826LA. The first thing that I enjoyed was hearing people giving silly ideas for the story. For example, a fifth grader said the evil doctor’s name should be Dr. Pink. Another one said the main character’s (whose name was Matthew) nose should be super-duper long. Another thing that I liked doing was writing the ending to the story. I wrote that Matthew and Bora Bora yelled for help. Superman came down and saved them. The last activity that we did that I liked was meeting the “Hand of Doom.” The “Hand of Doom” is a gloved hand. It gave us our published stories. Also, I liked the story of how the “Hand of Doom” became the “Hand of Doom.”
- Ally Yamashita
I did three activities on the 826LA field trip. One activity we did was write a story as a group. We wrote a story all together. It was my class and Mrs. McFerren’s class. We wrote a story about a man with a broken nose from Ishkabibble. Then we had to finish the story secretly. I liked doing it this way because it gives us a chance to do individual writing. I’m proud that I filled up the whole page! Lastly, we had lunch. I had a caprese sandwich. During lunch, I was thinking about my story. I loved my story and my lunch!
- Talia Romo-Kikuchi
I was terrified during the trip to 826LA for three reasons. To begin with, I was first startled when Mr. Barnacle woke up and started speaking. When Daniel told my class, Mrs. McFerren’s, and me that Mr. Barnacle was asleep, I thought to myself, “I’ve got to be super silent!” Then we woke up! My heart dropped because Daniel also told us that Mr. Barnacle hated children! Besides that, I thought the Hand of Doom was intensely freaky when Daniel described it. I thought it was going to be a freaky special effect that creeped everyone out. It was just some guy wearing a velvet glove, and it stuck out of the curtain! In my opinion it was pathetic. I also felt frightened at the end of the field trip when Mr. Barnacle called me up to get my book. When he called me, I wasn’t sure what to do because I thought he would deny my book. I thought my ending would sound stupid compared to the others’, but it wasn’t that bad.
- Jamila Piri
