Where and when would you go if you could travel in time? That is the theme of this years Be-a-Famous Writer contest. I thought that kids would love the idea of writing about escaping to another place in time, and that teachers could use it as a class project inspiring ideas of past explorers or inventors, or thinking about what advances might happen in the future. It’s an ideal opportunity to explore some times and places other than our own. Will the time machine take me to the past or to the future?
Past or future?
The contest is for classrooms only and is FREE to enter. Parents you can still participate by telling your child's teacher about it.
- ENTRY DATES: SEPTEMBER 1, 2014.
- Contest Closes: November 15, 2014
- Winners Announced January 15, 2015
- For classrooms K - 4th grade
Mrs. P invites your class to write a story on the topic of TIME TRAVEL, no less than 250 words and not to exceed 1,000 words. It may be fiction or non-fiction. Any classroom from Kindergarten through 4th grade may enter. Just one story per classroom! It can be a collaborative story, or you can have your class vote on which child's story to enter. Find all the details at my contest website.
My amazing sponsors are providing books galore that will benefit the schools of the winners! Books in every format, real books, digital books and audio books! And what school doesn’t need books? See my prize page for details of what your classroom will win. Meet my sponsors: Buy Preferred, myON Reader, Tales2Go, Polka Dots Publishing, Inc. & Powell's Books.
Here are several children’s books that can be used in the classroom to gets kids excited and formulating their own ideas to write about:
- Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne introduces young readers to different cultures and times in history. Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse that allows them to travel back in time. Over the course of the series, they have gone on nearly 50 adventures in places such as ancient Egypt, Camelot, visiting dinosaurs, and the Titanic. Ages 5-10.
- The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard by Gregory Rogers. A boy playing among the warehouses of London kicks a soccer ball into an abandoned theater. There he finds an enchanted cape that transports him back in time right onto the stage of one of William Shakespeare's plays! Ages 5-10.
Writing prompt idea for teachers to use with their classroom: You have been given a time machine and can travel to any point in the history of the Earth. Where will you travel and why?
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