A Trip To Writers' Exchange

Today our whole class had a a chance to get a taste of what it is like at the Writers' Exchange Program.  We were invited by Jennifer of Writers' Exchange to come down and do some writing together.  She arranged for 5 volunteers to come help us!

Jennifer and the other adults came and walked us over to their "place".  It was just 3 blocks away on Hastings Street.

When we arrived, everyone was SO excited.  Jennifer gave us a few minutes to walk around and explore.  Some of our classmates go to Writers' Exchange after school so they were our expert tour guides!

Do you know what these are???  They are typewriters.  People used these to write before computers!

After looking around, we finally got together in our groups for a game of mini golf!  You might be wondering..."What does mini golf have to do with writing?"

Well in this game, you had to add the number of strokes it took your team to get their balls into the holes.  Then the total score told you what characters and settings and things you had to include in your stories...which we were going to write next!

It is not easy getting the ball into the little hole!

Each hole had a book theme.  Do you know what book these 2 characters are from??

This team is at the "Green Eggs and Ham" hole.  I wonder what their score was??

The writing begins!

The ideas are coming fast!

Looking at books for some ideas!

Everyone worked so hard.

We illustrate our stories too.

Finally our stories were done.  The next part was very exciting!  We got to use a REAL microphone to read our stories to the class.  Then, before we knew it...the trip was over and we had to go back to school!

We want to thank Jennifer for inviting us to Writers' Exchange and for planning such a clever writing activity.  AND we want to thank Jackie, Shelagh, Haley, Mariah and Stacey for taking time out of their busy day to come help us and make writing so much FUN!!

THANK YOU WRITERS' EXCHANGE!!