Creative Writing Prompts on New Year Resolutions

Today I posted on my school's blog about a writing prompt that I gave to my students.  One of the things that I firmly believe is that students need a lot of practice with writing if they are going to improve.  Sometimes these writings can be really simple and fun--this took zero grading, I just read what they wrote.  So check out the blog here: http://cedarridgeacademy.blogspot.com/2013/01/writing-new-year-resolutions-in-english.html 

and then if you want to see my inspiration check out:

The stars came from:  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/New-Year-Goals-and-Memories-Craftivity-Freebie


I added this twist to it so that I could put them on bulletin boards:

From: http://frugalinfirst.blogspot.com/2012/12/ringing-in-new-year-freebie-style.html

From: http://www.firstgradewow.blogspot.com/2013/01/were-going-to-knock-your-socks-off.html

Even though all of these were written for elementary school kids, my high schoolers really enjoyed it and I did not get one complaint about them being too childish.  I got some snickers for the tiny corniness of the socks--but they didn't put up a fuss.  I think it was a real success.

P.S. Thank you Pinterest for the great ideas :)