apples, peaches....

I had a teacher in my classroom who had been teaching full time and when it was time for her to let go of some lessons I immediately wanted to take over WW so that I could implement Melissa's ideas. Although my students loved the apples, peaches, pumpkin pie story starter and we have now created an extensive list of stories, it was tought getting started. I teach a bilingual class so some of my ELL's claimed that they did not have any stories to share. However after they would come in in the morning anxious to share something or after they shared some news from home or the weekend and I responded that these were stories and to be sure to share those if it was their turn during apples, peaches time it got easier for them to see themselves as having experiences to share and turn into stories. We are taking it slow, but loving it every day.