A photo a week - writing challenge
Literacy Challenge May 30th, 2008This week, I invite you to accept a long term challenge.
- I would like you all to take one photo, each week, for the rest of the year, and paste it into your writing journals.
- Surprise, surprise - now I want you to write something about the photo.
- It may be captions, speech bubbles, poetry, descriptions, your thoughts, a letter, a list, an advertisement, I wonder… etc.
- You may wish to take a photo of the same thing each week (if there is the possibility of being able to notice change eg. a baby or a tree etc) or something interesting that you see quite randomly.
- Whatever you photograph, it must be inspirational to you - so that you can write something about it.
- Add the photo and your written response, to your blog.
- I will take part in this process as well. Why don’t you encourage mum and dad to do it as well. They could paste their photos in your writing journal, or better still, create a journal of their own.
- I’m excited by this. I hope you are too. See my photo a week on my teacher blog at
http://margm.globalteacher.org.au/category/a-photo-a-week/
- Good luck.
June 4th, 2008 at 1:04 am
hi shiloh hear i cant do this untill i get a book and i cant get photos or a camra so what can i do?
June 4th, 2008 at 1:22 am
I really like this challenge! I can dig up embarrasing photos and put them in my diary!
Still its a lot of fun!
June 4th, 2008 at 3:01 am
I like it too, it will be very fun taking photos of things, I love taking photos.
June 4th, 2008 at 3:07 am
I was just wondering Ms Murnane, with the writing we do in our journals about the picture, can we get poems and/or quotes of the internet???
June 4th, 2008 at 4:13 am
I am so pleased that you are looking forward to the project kiddos. I am excited about it too. Mrs McCartney is going to do it as well (even though she doesn’t have a camera - DOH!)
Anyway, Shiloh, maybe you could use those brilliant artistic skills and do a drawing a week - I’m sure that would be beautiful and Luigi - absolutely feel free to use poetry or quotes from the internet, as long as you include the website and acknowledge the author. I would like to see you do some writing of your own as well. I was kind of thinking about 100 words - which sounds a lot, but it isn’t really. Now as for you little jessica, that photo you used this week of Alex in a shopping bag, was delightful and what you wrote brought a tear to my eye. I am really proud of you and what you are doing.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:02 am
I have to wait till the weekend to take photos of my rabbits! I think I’m a bit carried away with rabbits now!
As for calling Jess little shes not that small.
After all I am the smallest in the grade.
June 4th, 2008 at 6:01 am
hey there Hailey - I am excited about your rabbits too and I am looking forward to seeing your photos. No worries about waiting till the weekend. Yes, you do win the prize for the smallest in the grade. I guess Jess doesn’t look that small to you. Remember good things come in small packages:)