At Laurel Elementary School they use the NOYCE reading and writing program for strong literacy skills (http://www.noycefdn.org/literacy/index.html). The kids have to write stories and draw corresponding pictures every day. Spelling doesn’t count yet, but they are using punctuation.

Mrs. Amato asked the class to write about something that made them sad. Ethan wrote about moving away from his best friend Nicolas when he was 4. At the end of class he asked Mrs. Amato to keep the story for him because it made him to sad to think about it.

Aw!!!