Great Skype with Mrs. P from California!

Last Wednesday the students had a special guest visit the classroom via Skype!  Her name is Mrs. P!  Mrs. P is known for sharing fascinating stories with students and encouraging them to be readers and writers!  She tells many fantasy stories and shares how she gets ideas ideas to write about.  

I had contacted Mrs. P via Twitter to see if she would talk to the students about how writers get ideas, being we have been spending so much time on that topic in writing.  She was so excited and glad to meet our 3rd graders!  During the Skype, she talked to the students about a writing contest she holds each year for students and classes.  Information about Mrs P, her stories, and her contest can be found at the following link:

http://mrsp.com

During our visit with Mrs. P, the students also had time to ask her questions about reading and writing. The most important thing she told the students is that if you can tell a story, you can write it. That is a super statement to remember as many times the students want to share a story with me about something that happened to them, but struggle to come up with ideas to write about.  We now use that statement in our classroom during writing.  "If you can tell a story, you can write it.".  

It was a wonderful experience to share with Mrs. P and all of 3rd grade.  We will get started on our stories for her writing contest soon.  I hope the students took something away from Mrs. P. and hopefully we can Skype again soon.   She always says that "reading is cool".  So is writing!!!