Fancy Day

How can we make our writing dazzle? Using "fancy" words of course! During Writer's Workshop, we have been discussing word choice to make our writing more descriptive.  After reading several Fancy Nancy books by Jane O'Connor, we collected and recorded our favorite fancy words.  We used these words in fancy sentences and created this fancy word wall:

To end our fancy week, Friday was Fancy Day!  We shared our favorite Fancy Nancy stories with Miss Klipfel's and Mrs. Higgins' classes. It was a stupendous (that's a fancy word for great) day!