Squiggles

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Have you heard of this game? I bought it at Scholars Choice. It's a doodle game where you are given a squiggle and you create something new from it. If you want to see what I'm talking about, click here. So, I LOVED the premise of the game. It encourages children to be creative and try something new. But, it's not really Language Arts...sadly enough :( How can you make anything LA? WRITE ABOUT IT!! So that's exactly what I asked from my students. I gave them each a Squiggle and they drew a picture from it. I made sure I told them before they started that they would have to write at least 4 sentences about their drawing so they could draw something that they felt comfortable writing about. They had so much fun and I got some very interesting stories about witches, sharks, camping and more! No one had the same. Talk about F-U-N!!