29: Tiny Moments
"Everything is sacred when you take time to notice. Big love happens in the small moments." -JJ Heller Our life is made up of tiny moments. They are small but significant pockets of time that when put together, make our life story more meaningful. It can be found in many of our firsts, lasts, and in betweens -- like the first time we experienced snow, or the last time we saw our beloved pet, or the slow and quiet walks where we can savor the beauty around us. In writing, tiny moments are the strongest foundations of a story. Lucy Calkins, an advocate of literacy and the Writing Workshop approach, calls them seed stories. When children write, they often look at the broader picture. Seed stories ask us to zoom in -- to look at the tiny details of the bigger picture, and to let it grow with our words. This way, we create a vivid retelling of our stories that will allow our readers to experience it as if they were with us when it was happening. Source This week in Kinder 2 was ab