Friday, March 7, 2014

SOLSC #7 - Five Minute Friday

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Before Thanksgiving break my students and I were in the routine of "Five Minute Friday."  I copied the idea from a blog and decided to use it with my students.  I would pick a random word, and they would write whatever came to mind.  The idea behind it is to just get them to write.  I eventually let them write a word on a card, and we put them in a jar to draw from each week.

Since Christmas our schedule has been everything BUT routine, but I decided it was time to try FMF again.  Today I decided to write along with them and include it as my post for today.

When I pulled out the word, I groaned loudly.  Of course that was to really build up the suspense and it worked.  I have 21 students and 16 of them play basketball.  Guess what the word was - yep basketball!

Here is my writing for today's FMF:

Basketball

balls bouncing
nets swishing
crowds cheering
whistles blowing

parents yelling
players listening
horns sounding
popcorn popping
cheerleaders flipping

teams winning
teams losing
players growing


life
lessons 
learned

7 comments:

  1. Neat poem, and so many of your students could relate! (I wonder how many times "basketball" is in the jar... hmmm!) :) Great writing idea!

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  2. Live the poem and the activity! I think I am going to steal that one. :-)

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  3. Fun poem, fun idea for Fridays!

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  4. The rhythm of this reminded me of a basketball bouncing.

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  5. FMF poetry. Clever twist to the free-write. Your words bounced perfectly.

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  6. What a great idea. I love your poem, too. All those verbs definitely capture the fast pace of basketball!

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