Lost {and Found} Writing

This past week we read the story Lost! by David McPhail in our reading series.  In the story a bear gets lost when he ventures into the big city and a boy helps him find his way home.  Once he gets back to the forest safely the boy discovers he is now lost and the bear vows to help him find his way home. 

It’s a very cute story and hopefully your 1st grader will read it to you over the weekend!!!

To go along with the theme of the story we did several {LOST} writing activities this week.  We wrote about something special that we have lost and we wrote about a time that we have been lost. 

Our BIG writing activity involved a LOST and FOUND box.  It was full of items that a 1st grader might lose.Our job was to create a story about the item we chose from the LOST and FOUND box.  We used a graphic organizer to plan our story.  We had to tell what the item was, who lost it, what they were doing when they lost it, who found the item and where the item was found.  We really had to use our imagination on this activity!!!   After we completed our graphic organizer we used it to help us write a story.  Our stories turned out SO great that we asked Mr. Mountain {our principal} if we could hang them up by the LOST and FOUND at our school.

These are my FABULOUS 1st Grade Writers . . . aren’t they a cute bunch!!!!