Chelsea's Reflection on Writer's Workshop

I really enjoyed reading Greg's book. It was very thorough
and straight to the point. I liked that the words he used were
easy to understand, rather than having difficult words that the
meanings need to be looked up in a dictionary. I also like that
everything was listed out step-by-step. It pretty much
answers all of your questions before the book ends. I would
like to hold on to this book for future use to look back on
when I become a teacher.
It's perfect that we are learning about writer's workshop
right now because I have the opportunity to see examples
of this process in my mentor's classroom at Mililani Uka. Just
last week, my mentor teacher introduced the writing process
to her students and used this process to teach them. She used
the same example that Greg showed us in class last Monday.
I've seen the writer's workshop work in action because most of
the kids do seem to enjoy writing. I think my mentor teacher
did a really good job of presenting her mini lesson in the
beginning. She was very enthusiastic and provided a lot of
demonstrations for the kids to look at. When it was time for
the kids to start their own brainstorming and writing, they
got straight to jotting down their topics to write about. I like
to see kids motivated to want to do their work in class.