Small Moments

Today we learned about writing small moment stories.  We talked about how a small moment is a true story that happened to you that was just a little piece of your day.  Our mini lesson focused on pretending our stories were watermelons.  A whole watermelon is a very large idea that has lots of little stories inside.  A slice of the watermelon discusses one of the topics from the big idea.  One seed of the slice represent one small moment from your big idea.  Here is our anchor chart to help us remember how to take a big idea and find a small moment from it to write about.  Notice how the idea became smaller each time!