The Sloppy Copy Slipup ©Holiday House
Writer's Day Workshops
Pencils Ready? READ! WRITE! ROCK! ©
"Anything I ever think about writing is either too long, too short or too boring..."Brian Higman,
(alias Big Hig) Miss Fromme's class / "The Sloppy Copy Slipup"
The Writer's Day Workshops are available for 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grader's. Using, "The Sloppy Copy Slipup" and the up-coming BIG HIG sequel, (Holiday House, Inc. FALL 2012) your "OUTSTANDING" students will write about their so-called "boring lives" - beginning with their names, and ending with - well - who really knows the mind of a writer?
Blast a sentence, illuminate a moment, visualize the scene - and begin a SLOPPY COPY!
I look forward to writing with you soon.
DyAnne DiSalvo
Artist/Author of Children's Books
- Writer’s Day Workshop example (36k PDF)
Teacher's workshop available upon request:
- Teacher Workshop example (52k PDF)
- Teacher Information (32k PDF)
"Learn It All"4th + 5th grade Awesome Music
Verse 1: What makes you think you can be anybody if you just won't give your best?!
I used to think that when they challenged me, my teachers were just being a pest.
Now I know the reason that I come here. I wanna learn it all year!
Verse 2: Although I know I have to work hard and read,
Sometimes I don't always know what I need.
Given variety and choices to make, convinces us all to partake.
At Viola our teachers help us feel good. If we want to read anything we could!
Bridge:We know that gym and art and music give us a break.
Showing interest in many things will make us great!
Coda: We want to be the best that we can be here.
We want to learn it all this year!
Awesome Music teacher
Ms. Melani Hampel
Suffern, Ny
