First Grade Celebration Portfolios, by the first graders

  First graders are getting ready to become second graders.  They looked through their journals and writing pieces from the year to see how their writing has changed.  Then we worked as a class to figure out what we noticed, and how we could choose our best writing pieces.  All the questions, sentences, and ideas below are straight from the first graders!  Enjoy! -- Mrs. Jiang

What did first graders notice about their writing?

Did you ever wonder how the first graders writing has changed?  Well let's see!

• In the beginning of the year, we couldn't spell that good, but in the end of the year we know how to spell more words that we didn't know before.
• I noticed that the writing was growing.  At the first part of the year, we only wrote a little bit of writing, but as days passed, our writing got longer and longer, with more and more sentences.
• Our writing started out all sloppy and sometimes didn't make any sense.  Now its neat and not so sloppy and makes more sense.
• Our writing had more specific words and details at end of the year.
• At the beginning of the year we sometimes forgot more capital letters and periods.  Now we start fixing a few of those problems.
• At the beginning of the year I couldn't really read my writing because my b's were d's and stuff like that, but at the end of the year I could read it.
• At the beginning of the year, some of us forgot to add spaces between words, but now we all use spaces.
• At the beginning of the year, sometimes we forgot illustrations, or our illustrations didn't have color or details, but now we have more details in our illustrations.
• At the beginning of the year, we just drew pictures, and pictures are where there are only the things that you want to draw, like anything.  At the end of the year, we started doing illustrations, and illustrations are where you match the words with your drawing.

Now you that you know what we reviewed about our writing, you can review and compare your own writing.