Mission Statement: The Writing Beehive Center’s mission is to help inspire enthusiasm for writing by creating pleasing presentations of students’ best writing efforts for the school community to read.

How Does it Work? The Publishing Center exists to process your student’s best writing with parent volunteers to type student’s stories, make book covers and volunteer in school to make everything run smoothly.

Parent Volunteers can help in three different ways:

1)    Type at home – students stories are sent home with your child.  Paper and directions are provided.  You type the stories, print them out and send them back to school.  Sometimes the printing is on half size paper, sometimes full size and sometimes the typed files are emailed back to the teacher.

2)   Make covers for student’s books.  Covers are made by taking oak tag and binding the story with the oak tag.

3)   Volunteering at school in the Publishing Center by restocking supplies, sending out student’s stories for typing, sending out covers for assembly and binding books together after they are returned.  A training session will be scheduled to show everyone who volunteers for this exactly what needs to be done.

 

 

 

Encourage your child to write ideas, sentences, or stories on a regular basis will help them appreciate the value of printed word.  Students have just finished the unit on writing small moments. This is a story about one moment which is described in detail. Here is an anchor chart in student friendly language to explain what a small moment is:

 

At home, you can ask your child to write about a small moment that occurred over the weekend. or have your child write:

• their own thank-you notes
• party invitations
• letters/note to family
• write a grocery list

Important: writing skills develop slowly and at different rates for different children. Encourage your child to share ideas. Don’t worry about mistakes in grammar, spelling, or punctuation until your child has finished writing and is ready to jazz up their writing (publish it).