Procedural Writing: How to Make a Cootie Catcher

We launched our Procedural Writing unit through following a written procedure on "How to make a Cootie Catcher". After completing our cootie catchers using the written procedure, we rewrote the steps using easy to follow, step by step instructions and photographs of the process.

Today we used our written procedure to teach Ms. Zarina's Grade 1 class how to make their own cootie catchers! 

Follow our steps to try to make your own! 

How to Make a Cootie Catcher

By: Room 109

Step 1  If it's a rectangle paper, fold it until the two sides meet and cut the remaining rectangle off.

Step 2 Colour your square only on one side with pencil crayon or crayon.

Step 3 Fold the paper in half with the coloured side in.

Step 4

Open your paper and fold it in the other direction. You should see an x on your paper.

Step 5

Fold the four corners into the middle of the paper. You will make a small square.

Step 6

You will flip it over and fold the four corners into the middle again.

Step 7

Fold it in half one way and then fold it in half the other way again.

Step 8

You can write the colours on the four squares on one side of the square.

You can write numbers on the triangles on the other side of the square.

Step 9

Write fortunes on the inside of the flaps.

Step 10

Put your finger and thumb in the bottom holes of the square.

You are done your cootie catcher!

Post It Smackdown!

In Writer's Workshop, we have been learning how to write sentences with BAM! We have been learning how to make a sentence complete and descriptive. We used post- it notes to collaboratively brainstorm all of the WHAT words (adjectives) and WHERE words (adverbs) we can think of to describe our pictures. We then organized them into categories that make sense to us for us to then write our descriptive sentences independently.