Morning Writing Practice

Nearly every morning I have the students copy a paragraph telling about a bird in our area.  Then they draw a picture of it by looking at my example.  At first this was difficult for some of them and they greatly complained, but now they can do it!  I am so glad that they realize that they can write more than one sentence at a time.  Since it is about birds, they are happy!  I will add some more pages soon.

I use mostly words that we have been working on, so that 
they can learn to read them.  I am stapling them into a 
booklet, so that they can use it to practice birds and reading 
during the summer months.