Creating our Journals

This year we are going to work very hard in writing, but I think you'll be surprised at how fun that work will turn out to be!

Our first step in setting up our writing time was to personalize our journals this week. This is an important step, because we really need to come to see our journals as extensions of ourselves. We will put the stories from our lives, our feelings, and our ideas into these notebooks.

How many of you have read the Harry Potter books? Do you remember Dumbledore's Penseive? The Pensieve is a vessel where a person can put his or her most precious thoughts and memories. These thoughts and memories are stored in the Pensieve, and can be sifted through and revisited anytime. Can you see how our notebooks are like Dumbledore's penseive?