Last week I introduced the whiteboards to the kids during writing time. We read the story Freight Train. I talked about the how the author, Donald Crews, was very interested in trains when he was growing up. As a writer, he chose to write about trains. I asked the kids to think about something they were interested in. As they shared their interests I asked them to write it on their whiteboards. This was a great opportunity for me to observe writing habits as well as modeling proper sentence structure. 

How cute are these kids?!?!