{"id":8983,"date":"2018-11-17T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=8983"},"modified":"2018-11-17T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T14:00:34","slug":"turning-a-negative-into-a-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=8983","title":{"rendered":"Turning a negative into a positive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FLETCHERS LAKE: <\/strong>The students in Nicole Legrow\u2019s Grade 5 class at Holland Road Elementary School have turned something that many view as a negative into a positive, through the reading graffiti wall.<\/p>\n

A reading graffiti wall is a place on the wall in the classroom where students can write powerful quotes that they find in the books they are reading.<\/p>\n

Piper Morrison; William Isenor; and Julia Lace were three of the students who spoke to The Laker<\/em> about it as their fellow classmates listened in on Nov. 13.<\/p>\n

William, who calls Fall River home, said the wall inspires him and his classmates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we find something in the books,w e can write it on the wall and if other people are sad they can look at it,\u201d said William. \u201cIt\u2019s like a positive boost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piper, of Lakeview, said it\u2019s a way to feel welcomed into the classroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice to read positive things out of books,\u201d she said. \u201cI think sometimes you can read books and they can be weird, but these are positive messages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Julia said she feels encouraged by reading all of the positive messages up on the board.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good to know that a lot of the books we\u2019re reading have inspiring messages,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Teacher Nicole Legrow explained where she got the idea to bring the learning tool to the classroom. She went to a conference on literacy in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw it on Pinterest and thought what a great way to take what were reading and put it into the classroom as a way to inspire the kids,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She said the point is that all the quotes are positive messages.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are things that when you want to give up the messages inspire them,\u201d said Legrow. \u201cThe kids are really excited when they find a really great quote.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reading graffiti wall can also help the students chose what book they may want to read next.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you like the quote, you can see what book it is from and go pick that book,\u201d Julia, who lives in Fall River, said.<\/p>\n

Piper said when she can\u2019t concentrate she looks at the reading graffiti wall and it helps her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just remember how much work went into putting those positive messages in the books we\u2019re reading and how it can help me concentrate,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I like the whole point of the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why a graffiti wall? William explained the point of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people that do graffiti on buildings, people think it\u2019s bad but we did this so we could make it good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FLETCHERS LAKE: The students in Nicole Legrow\u2019s Grade 5 class at Holland Road Elementary School have turned something that many view as a negative into a positive, through the reading graffiti wall. A reading graffiti wall is a place on the wall in the classroom where students can write powerful quotes that they find in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[2,65,29,66,67],"class_list":["post-8983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured","tag-fall-river","tag-fletchers-lake","tag-holland-road-school","tag-ms-legrow","tag-reading-graffiti-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}