Author Visit!

Today we had Jon Coy come to visit!  He had many interesting things to say. 

He shared with us how his first book, Night Driving, was published.  It took 6 years from start to finish!  That was much longer than any of us thought.  

He gave us some good advice about how to approach writing.  He said don't think writing to too hard and not even try, if you start writing you will write more and more, just get started.  Don't ask your teacher how to spell words and don't fall in love with your eraser.  He also told us that we all have a story to tell.  

This is a rough copy of Night Driving.

He explained that authors have to work on their writing, over and ovER and OVER.  It is a continual process of revising and changing it to get it just right.

He read Two Old Potatoes and Me.  He asked us to participate as he read certain words.

Then, he explained how Vroomaloom Zoom was published.  He showed us an example of sloppy work. 

We were very impressed with him and his books.  When we came back to class, we wrote about our experience in our Special Times in Second Grade.

We had our very own "Crazy Sock" day.  Here are the samples of crazy socks.