Writing reflection

Today in class we were sitting down on the mat brainstorming about Harold as we were going to start our AsTtle writing. All of a sudden there was lightening and thunder and the weather turned very crazy very fast. The children were totally distracted with lights flickering and hail. In the beginning I was trying to get the children back on task to our brainstorm but then quickly decided that this was not going to work as the children were totally distracted and I wouldn't get a very good sample from them while the weather was like this. So we decided to write about the weather as a recount what happened, what did we see, feel hear. And the writing was amazing. The children were using some awesome punctuation and onomatopoeia in their writing and it was very authentic. I felt that this was a good decision and the children really enjoyed writing about what they had just experienced as it was recent and exciting. It was even better to get some great pieces of writing!! :) Proud teacher moment