We are Everything Good: 3rd, 4th and 5th Graders from Mary Bethune
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INTRODUCING…
THE THIRD GRADE WRITERS AND THEIR WORK
The creative writing in this chapter of the Bethune anthology was written by two small groups of
third graders at Mary Bethune School. The students were selected by their teachers, Ms.
Vinson and Ms. Benjamin, for additional enrichment using a breakout room in their zoom ELA
classroom. We met together six times for half an hour each time.
The academic goal of the enrichment was simply to increase the third graders’ writing stamina,
confidence and fluency and for them to move beyond one or two sentence responses to writing
prompts. The social emotional learning goals were to give students an opportunity to connect
with each other and express themselves creatively in a smaller virtual setting.
We had a lot of fun collaborating, with inventive animal stories, frog stories (an important third
grade topic), and learning a new tool–the google jamboard.