Youth Writing Camp

Well, our OWP inagural youth writing camp is almost complete! Today's posts from the campers were especially great to read. I also found them to be extremely reflective, especially coming from children who are all right around 10-12 years old (4th - 8th graders). Not all of the campers had finished posting from this morning, but those who had time did a fabulous job, for the most part. Wednesday is our final day together and I will post a camp picture and some final thoughts from the campers. What an exhilarating and exhausting endeavor!

OWP Youth Writing Camp Update

Hello TCs and Fellows! It's an exciting time as our site launches its first Youth Writing Camp. The students arrive Thursday morning (May 29th) at 8:00 am, with 39 campers expected to dive into the world of their own miniature writing project!

We will be journaling, reading articles, sharing, responding, producing daily minutes of our work, working in small writing groups, learning new writing skills, practicing those new skills, and producing a written anthology of our work! Along with that, we will create camp t-shirts to commemorate our unity, and host a reception for district administrators, parents, and local media. All in 10 days!

We have set up a student blog for the campers to "Post" some writing on a daily basis. Please do not post any comments to this blog, but do feel free to email me if you would like to make any comments that you know would help me with the blog, or that would be an encouraging word to the campers. Our blog link is http://www.owptigerwriters.blogspot.com/ if you would like to see what the 4th - 8th graders have to say!

Much thanks to Keri, Casey, and Larry who were very helpful as we got this camp in motion. Also, thank you to Prairie Lands Writing Project, who were super supportive in helping with organization and structure. I'll post occassionally to update our youth writing camp's progress. Future OWP TCs in the making...no doubt about it!