Today we read Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak, Ph.D. What did you discover about your own fantastic brain? How can stretching and shaping your brain help you grow as a writer in Writer's Workshop? by Julie Reuter

Elsa S.

2015-01-22 16:18:45 UTC

Stretching and shaping your brain give you the ability to think and remember you thoughts and ideas, helps you learn from you mistakes, and the ability to build more neurons from learning new thinks. The more you learn the more neurons you have. Also I earned that when you try really hard to learn something, new connections attach to other neurons.

Lily K.

2015-01-22 16:18:48 UTC

I discovered about my brain that every time I face a fear I get braver and then it also helps me grow as a writer because naturally facing fears/having a problem to face is good for writing about and I also learned that making mistakes actually is okay because it helps the brain learn a lot and if I don't know how to do something in writing I can take a risk and even if it fails I learn and I keep growing and striving until I do the piece correctly

Amanda M.

2015-01-22 16:19:11 UTC

I discovered that when you try to learn something new connections grow from neurons to other neurons. I think this could help me in writing because I will know to write and different writing abilities to help me, in school and at home. I also discovered that when you face a fear you get braver. I know that I am really brave so I also know now that I have faced a lot of my fears that maybe I didn't know about. This helps me at school because it allows me to get stronger with my writing.

Kierstyn K.

2015-01-22 16:19:13 UTC

I discovered that if you challenge your brain, you can learn more, even if you make mistakes, you still learn from the challenge. How can stretching and shaping my brain help me grow? Well, to stretch your brain, you need to learn more and challenge your brain. So, what am I going to do in Writers Workshop? Learn more, and challenge myself. Why? Because I want to have a more elastic, fantastic brain. So what I need to do is work hard, challenge myself, and be BRAVE. If you think about it, the brain needs to grow stronger as well as your muscles, even though the brain isn't a muscle, and it doesn't work like one, it needs to grow stronger like one. So I need to learn, learn, learn!

Anthony H.

2015-01-22 16:20:56 UTC

I discovered that if you try really hard to learn something new, connections grow from neurons and attach to other neurons. I also learned that making mistakes is the best way that stretches your brain and makes it grow. I also thought that it was really cool to learn that your brain controls everything you do, think, remember, and especially dream. Another cool fact about your brain is that your brain stretches when you overcome your fears. One last fact is that the more you practice, the more your brain remembers and the easier the job is to do.

Stretching your brain helps you in writers workshop by making mistakes in your writing. When you make mistakes in your writing pieces, the better writer your brain becomes and you become. When you are challenged by yourself, and you overcome that challenge, your brain stretches and becomes bigger and better.

Djordje

2015-01-22 16:21:05 UTC

I discovered that my brain could, when you are trying to work hard and you have on top of your tongue but you just know it really bad, the neuron connects to another neuron that it was trying to find for about a minute and you just the answer out loud and get it right. I also know that my brain could your brain is an organ in your body, A brain is, everything that you do or dream of in your sleep. So know you can use your notes and start telling your mom and dad some facts about what you learned about what your brain can do.

Tyler C.

2015-01-22 16:21:08 UTC

I discovered that my brain helps me remember things and feel emotions. Without it, I wouldn't be much of a writer. I think that stretching my brain helps me as a writer because it helps me hold more information. And there a ton of ways to make it stretch. You could even make a mistake and it would grow. So there are plenty of ways to grow my fantastic elastic brain.

Alex K.

2015-01-22 16:21:14 UTC

The most interesting fact that I got was that Even if it is hard at first it will get easier. This will help me in writing because then when I think something is too hard I will remember this and keep trying.

Emma T.

2015-01-22 16:21:20 UTC

I learned that because of my brain, i can do everything that i do. I like what i like and I don't like what I don't like. I learned that it helps me grow. Especially as a writer. :) I have also learned hat the hippocampus is like a filling cabinet. It's what helps me find memories and ideas that had before.

Because of this lovely book, my brain is really stretched today. The brain gets more elastic every time you learn something new. My brain must be VERY stretchy by now after almost 12 years. When you are trying to remember something and you just can't get what you are trying to say, it probably means that your neurons haven't found each other yet. Every time you give up, you aren't learning more. The harder you try without giving up, the more you learn.

Noah D

2015-01-22 16:21:28 UTC

some of the facts that I learned about the fantastic elastic brain was that when you take a chance at conquering your fear and when you do your brain gets stronger the next time that your are scared about something. This will help me grow as a writer because it will give me the strength to talk to the class about why I wrote this story and reading it aloud to the class.It also will give me more time to really learn more about writing so that I can connect Neurons from the brain to other Neurons

Caleb

2015-01-22 16:21:29 UTC

One thing that I learned is when you make a mistake, it makes your brain grow and then you keep trying and trying until you get it right and as you do that, you learn a lot. I also learned that your brain has sections that do different jobs. Some may store things that happened or learned, some may help you remember things, and some may connect memories that you have stored within your brain. I think this will help me with my writing by giving me new ideas to write about. Some of the things that I would write about is personal experiences so that the things that I've learned will be written down.

Evan R.

2015-01-22 16:22:10 UTC

When we read this book I learned a lot about our brains. You are you because of your brain. That says that everyone is different and no 2 people will be the same. I also learned that it controls your dreams. Your brain gets stronger as you grow. That shows that by writing we can strengthen our brain. Neurons also connect when you build on things you know. That shows you get more neurons and become smarter by learning how to do things better. If you make a mistake your brain actually grows. That is because it knows what not to do and it can narrow it down to what to do. So overall I think this will help in writing because if we spell a word wrong or something we will strengthen our brain and become smarter.

Ben Y

2015-01-22 16:22:11 UTC

I learned that when you really try hard to learn something new you make new connections then those connections then go to other neurons.And in the first ten yeras of your life the brain grows faster.How stretching and shaping my brain helped me gow as a writer is that you learn one thing one day the next day you remember and grow upon that

Jaden B.

2015-01-22 16:22:17 UTC

I discovered that the hippocampus is like a file cabinet and it finds all of the memories that you can't remember and it finds it for you. Also the amygdala is the emotion control center in the center of your brain. And what most stood out to my is that wen you really think hard neurons search for each other and connect so you remember.

McKenna

2015-01-22 16:22:18 UTC

I learned that your brain grows very fast your first ten years of your life and that when you try hard to learn something new connections grow from your neurons and attach to other neurons and making mistakes helps your brain learn.

Katie S.

2015-01-22 16:22:21 UTC

I discovered that you brain is an organ in your body that is made up of tissue and cells. I also learned that in your brain, neurons tell other neurons what to do and that when you make a mistake, it is what helps you learn the best. The biggest thing I learned was that with more learning, the more elastic your brain is and the more ideas your brain can hold. Stretching and shaping your brain can help you grow as a writer because when you learn more, your brain gets more elastic and can hold more ideas, so it can help you think of new and improved awesome thoughts and ideas. Stretching your brain can also help you as a writer because it will build on to what you already know and build it up, until you are an amazing writer!!

Carter W.

2015-01-22 16:22:24 UTC

I learned that you S-T-R-E-T-C-H your brain when you take risks and when you overcome a fear. I also learned that even if you make mistakes, you are still training your brain. stretching and shaping your brain can help in writer's workshop because you can store many ideas fora writing piece. And when you stretch your brain, you can stor more ideas and thoughts that could help you in writing class, or if you are just writing a story for fun or a different purpose.

Nate

2015-01-22 16:22:26 UTC

I learned that the brain is an organ that is made up of cells and tissue, and that the brain controls most of your body. Neurons can help you in writing because when you want to remember a story or a personal narrative, the neurons help you with that. All parts of your body can stretch and make you smarter then before. Different parts of your brain work together to get smarter, its almost like if a kid doesn't know a math problem another kid could help him get the right one. When you try hard to learn something new, connections grow from neurons and attach to other neurons. I know this may sound weird but, when you make a mistake it helps your brain out a lot and makes it smarter, and making mistakes is actually one of the best things that you could do for your brain. Something that could help you with Writers Workshop is the neurons because they tell you what to do because what ever you write, is made by the neurons.

Nouchi

2015-01-22 16:22:51 UTC

The brain helps us in many ways while being a writer. For example, one thing that I learned was the Amygdala. This part of the brain helps control your emotions to different things. I also learned about Prefrontal Cortex, which helps with decision making, the Hippocampus, which is in the middle of the brain and helps with memory, he Cerebrum, which is the biggest part of the brain and can help you think about different things, the cerebellum, which helps your coordination, and the neurons in your brain, which connects to different things. Did you know that "Neuro" means something about the brain or a part of the brain? I also learned that when being younger, it's better to learn more things because the brain develops and changes very fast in the first 10 years of your life. Also, if you make more mistakes, the brain can stretch and can work better, but if you don't risk anything and if you never face your fears, the brain can't grow as much as you thought it would. Overall, I believe that this can be connected to Writing because if you don't try, risk, and make mistakes, then for one, writing wouldn't be as fun as it is, and for two, you would never grow as a writer. This is what I've learned about the brain and how it connects with writing!

Dylan D.

2015-01-22 16:22:59 UTC

I learned that your brain has many different parts, like the cerebrum, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, amygdala, cerebellum, and nurons. Your brain is mad up of cells and tissue. and you can stretch every part of your brain. Stretching and shaping my brain can help me in writing by making me learn more to connect more neurons, helping me write about certain things, using certain things.

Nedda

2015-01-22 16:23:15 UTC

One thing that fascinated me about the brain was the Hippo campus. It is so cool knowing that you have a "file cabinet" in your brain! I also thought neurons were really fascinating too, because when something's on the tip of my tongue I know that the neurons in my brain are trying to find and connect to each other! Now, how I am going to stretch my brain in Writer's Workshop, is that I am not going to be afraid to make mistakes. But after I will fix my mistake, and help my brain stretch even farther!

Hayden M

2015-01-22 16:23:38 UTC

One thing that I learned about my brain was that I can get my brain stronger by learning more and I also learned there's no limit to how strong your fantastic elastic brain can get. If I make more mistakes in any activity inside of school of outside of school.

Tyler J.

2015-01-22 16:23:47 UTC

I learned that all parts of your brain stretch when you learn something new. I also learned that making mistakes are the best things that your brain faces and when you make mistakes your brain learns from them. Another part that I learned that neurons are brain cells telling yourself what tot do. Those are some of the things that I learned from the book My Fantastic Elastic Brain. Stretching and shaping my brain helps me grow as a writing by connecting

Ethan R

2015-01-22 16:24:30 UTC

One thing I learned about my brain was that when I make a mistake it helps my brain grow. stretching my brain by making mistakes in writers workshop will help me because it is improving my brain as a writer when I make mistakes in writers workshop.

Aidan I .

2015-01-22 16:26:32 UTC

One thing that I learned was how my brain actually gets bigger and more elastic so basically it stretches out more. I think shaping my brain will help because it will give me more ideas

Tealyn

2015-01-22 17:28:31 UTC

One thing I learned is that making mistakes is actually one really amazing way to make your brain grow and make connections through neurons but it is also very important to learn from your mistakes I also think it is important to try new things because it will make you a better you! My brain being stretched and shaped helps me as a writer by teaching me new things that I can use in my writing it also helps me by showing me my mistakes and being able to fix them to make me a better writer. I also learned that it is important to be wrong! So you can fix it. Learn from it. Be a better you!

Anja

2015-01-22 17:28:45 UTC

One thing I discovered about my brain is it is an organ not a mussel. Another thing I learned is that my brain controls how I move and also controls my feelings. One last thing I learned is that my brain learns from my mistakes. How stretching my brain will help me become a better writer is I will learn from my mistakes and try my hardest.

Luke

2015-01-22 17:29:02 UTC

When reading "Fantastic Elastic Brain" I learned many things about my brain. One thing I discovered about my brain was that there are many sections in my brain , and when I am making a decision there are many parts of my brain just making that decision. There are many thing's that stretching my brain can help me with, and so I think it is important to stretch your brain so that you can have more brain capacity. Stretching my brain will also help me with connecting my neurons better.

Nick S.

2015-01-22 17:29:53 UTC

I discovered that my brain isn't a muscle it is actually a organ made up of cells and tissue. And that my brain grows neurons as I learn more. If you don't take risks you don't stretch your brain. The five main parts of the brain are the prefrontal cortex, the cerebrum ,the hippocampus ,the cerebellum and ,the amygdala

Alex D

2015-01-22 17:29:55 UTC

I learned that my brain stores things that I learn and I will always know the things I learned.By stretching my brain pushes me to do the best I can.I also learned about all the parts in the brain and how it's good to make mistakes because it helps the brain grow and learn from the mistake.I also learned that the brain is a organ and is made out of cells and tissue and it helps me think about what i'm reading and writing and to really think.

Kyle P.

2015-01-22 17:30:07 UTC

I discovered that, the brain has 6 section that help the human body think, move, make decisions, learn from mistakes and more!How can I stretch my brain and shape my brain as a writer is, use my past knowledge of how I write, and I how I use my hands to hold the pencil and write the words down that I know in my Fantastic Elastic Brain.

Alan

2015-01-22 17:30:17 UTC

I learned that the brain controls emotions and that it's an organ not a muscle.I also learned that when you make a mistake your brain is still growing! I think that stretching and shaping my brain will help me in writer's workshop by allowing me to think harder and deeper into my stories.

Lexi B

2015-01-22 17:30:17 UTC

I learned that my ADHD affects my brain when neurons sometimes can't connect, so I lose focus or I can't remember what I'm suppose to be doing. I think that knowing how these things work inside my brain will help me to control them. I also think that streching my brain will help me as a writer by being able to broden my horizens and think of new things to write about and help me to make good desicions in my writing.

Cat

2015-01-22 17:31:01 UTC

One thing I learned about my brain is the harder you try with out giving up, more you learn and that the brain is made of cells and tissue. Also that making mistakes is helping and training our brain and if we don't risk making mistake, we won't stretch my brain. How stretching my brain will help me grow as a writer is when i write things maybe i don't want to write and learn new things i didn't know already. Also making myself grow from my mistakes when i write.

Vaughn K.

2015-01-22 17:31:12 UTC

I discovered my brain can store a lot of information and add on to it like Lego blocks and learn from mistakes. I also learned that the brain is an organ NOT A MUSCLE. what also amazes me that the brain once it overcomes a fear it gives you more courage to complete another fear. Learning these things will help me expand my brain, while learning about my brain.

Jaden S.

2015-01-22 17:31:21 UTC

I discovered that my brain is truly an amazing organ. It helps me make decisions, take risks, and best of all, it makes me me! Stretching my "fantastic elastic brain," will help me grow as a writer by helping me learn new things, like different ways to write. It also helps me by pushing me to make the better, and sometimes harder choice; like making me ROAR! I also learned that there are many parts in my brain. Whenever I learn something new, my Brain searches for a connection. That is how I will streach my brain to make me grow as a writer.

Sidney F

2015-01-22 17:31:21 UTC

One thing that I learned about my is that it helps me learn from my mistakes from the fist time I did it, like if I try to do magic but I fail my brain helps me and helps me try a new way to do it. Also I learned that my brain helps me do new things and helps me get better at them like if I just start football it helps me learn better from when I just started about a year ago. This is what i have learned about my brain. One more thing it helps me with is that in writing it helps me store new things that I have learned like how to do a literary essay and it helps me get more neurons which help me learn new things. This is what I learned about my brain and how it works about writers workshop.

Anthony B

2015-01-22 17:31:27 UTC

I learned that my Brain has many different parts and they have many different roles. One files memorys while the other controls my movements! IF I stretch my brain and listen in writers workshop, i make more neruo connections and help myself. Also If i take more risks in writing I can help grow my knowledge and making me empathize my point better

Peyton G.

2015-01-22 17:31:30 UTC

I found out when I make mistakes My Brain just keeps getting stronger. If you never make a mistake your brain will never get stronger.

You can learn more things when you stretch your brain by when you don't punctuate you learn next time to make sure you do when you are writing. Also that your brain is a organ not a muscle .

Maria

2015-01-22 17:31:30 UTC

My brain can do many things. It controls what you think, feel, do, and remember. Your brain is a organ made up of cells and tissues. There is so many parts that contribute to how your brain works. The different parts are the cerebrum, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and the cerebellum. Using these parts of my brain and what I now know, I can grow as a writer. If I take more risks in my writing I can expand my knowledge for what helps my point, brings out emotion, and keeps the reader interested. Making mistakes well trying something knew expands your knowledge. If I try out different ways to improve my writing I will know what will make it better and expand my "Fantastic Elastic Brain!"

Dylan W.

2015-01-22 17:31:38 UTC

What I learned in the book called fantastic brain was, the brain is made out of cells and tissue. The brain is not a muscle and it is a organ. Learning new thing help your brain grow. What ever you do it is just learning how to do it. It stays in the brain so you now how to ride a bike. Making things is the best way your brain grows. Learning something new causes the brain to grow more connections among neurons. Your brain is shaping when you learn something new. How can stretching your brain help me as a writer is that once you learn something that the teacher teaches you something you will always now how to do it.

Alex R.

2015-01-22 17:31:52 UTC

I learned that learning something new causes the brain to learn grow more connections among neurons. Another thing that I discovered is that even when you make mastkies you are really getting smarter.

Sam

2015-01-22 17:33:15 UTC

Something that really stuck out to me was that you can give yourself a workout for the brain by learning something new.Shaping my brain to help become a better writer is learning more things about writing and how to use it in a effective way this is a way I can shape my brain. I feel like I can shape my brain in any form to help me in becoming a better writer and how it effects me. The brain is magnificent and can do many things that you wouldn't even know about.Your brain can explore many new ways to do things and that's how you can expand you r brain and make it grow.

Hayley

2015-01-22 17:34:24 UTC

Your brain can do so many things. Did you know that your brain face fears for you and when you walk up to something you were afraid of your brain helps you face the fears so you don't have to. "Your brain lets you think and remember and name things you see and hear." I knew that your brain is made of so many parts and all the parts contribute in the working of your fantastic elastic brain."The first ten years of your life your brain is continually growing." My brain helps me grow as a writer in the way of helping me remember bits and pieces of the story and helps my continually learning new and exciting parts of the story. It is also helpful because it helps me with making mistakes and fixing them but just a look at it also tells us what is a good part to write about and what you don't need to put in the piece. ."Your brain is made up of cells and tissue." Our brains are able to stretch not in the way of our brains over flowing and flooding with to much information, but in the way of storing more and more in our brains to give us more information on the topic that we choose or desire."Even when you make a mistake your brain is still growing and growing more and more."," Making mistakes is one of the best ways your brain can grow.","Learning something new causes the brain to grow new connections to neurons ."It shows how much we actually learn each and every day, it is pretty amazing. I think it is also really cool that ,"When you learn something new it stores that information with the old information that you already new." I find it cool that your brain does so much for you and nobody really even realizes it I think that is really cool. In conclusion your brain is amazing and never doubt the power of your brain, you can always rely on your brain to help you out a bit. Your brain controls your emotions and helps you control them. Without your brain we would be as smart as we are we wouldn't be as content as we are today we would be us. Our brain pretty much is our whole entire world. There is no end to what our brain can do.

Evan C.

2015-01-22 19:21:49 UTC

Something that I learned about my brain is that it is an organ and not a muscle. I also learned that the brain grows the fastest during the first then years of your life and that when you learn something new, you make a neuron connection. Some things that will help me in writer's workshop is that "when you make a mistake while you're learning something new, you're still training your brain. I also learned that making mistakes is the best way for your brain to grow and that you can stretch your brain by facing your fears.

Naomi S.

2015-01-22 19:22:27 UTC

After hearing about "Your Fantastic Elastic Brain" by JoAnn Deak Ph. D, I now know so much about my brain. A couple of amazing things that I learned about my brain is, when you were born you were very small, so you didn't really know anything about the world yet. Your brain was so small and not as strong as adults brain are. But as you get older, and older, your body grows and your brain starts developing these things, you see, touch, feel, it basically becomes more stronger. So people say that they know a whole lot of things about their brains but, I don't think that they know that many things like, your brain isn't really a muscle it's actually an organ, made up of cells and tissues. Everybody ends up making the mistake of thinking that their brain is really a muscle instead of a organ. If you don't know that, than I think you should research it. Theirs whole lot that I've got to learn about my brain, in just so little of time. Like there's 5 different parts of your body. One of those 5 different parts stuck out to me, the Amygdala because, well since it's an emotional part that is tightly packed with group cells deep, in the center of your brain. This made me think of all the emotional stuff that I feel, and think. I thought about all the emotional things that I've been through and just thought, that your Amydala can make you feel any kind of way, just by what you see.

Meg

2015-01-22 19:22:28 UTC

Although I already knew a few things about my brain, I learned so much more. A couple of things I learned was that the first ten years of your life are the most important for your brain to row, different parts of your brain work together to complete different activities, and your Amygdala, can remember your "fears", so you might not be as scared next time. Something I learned that will help me as a writer is that mistakes are one of the best ways to learn. I, myself am not one to make mistakes, nor do I like making them, especially because of the "perfectionist" trait I see in myself much too often. While sometimes I do take risks, it is sometimes hard because I know that I might make a mistake, and mistakes are not acceptable for Meg! While mistakes are one of the best ways to learn, I might need to teach myself that, in order to succeed a little more by taking risks in writing, and again, make mistakes whether I like it or not. Another thing I learned that may help me as a writer is that neurons are connections, and will help you remember things. I've always had a great memory and love learning, so I might not have to work on it quite as much. But connections are what helps grow your brain, make new ideas, and help you on things like, for example, on demand writing periods or any test in general, inside writing or out. By doing this, I can also remember writing techniques I learned in class or from books I've read, and apply them to my own writing to make them better. And with a better understanding of my brain, I may be able to take some more risks in writing, and, of course if you know me, list off facts to my friends like nobody's business. But with the risks I may take now, I could end up with awesome results.

Maddie

2015-01-22 19:22:34 UTC

Something I learned about the brain today that really stood out to me is that when you make a mistake, your brain will remember not to do that again because it didn't work. Your brain will remember that it didn't work and will try new ways until you succeed. I also learned that making mistakes is one of the best ways for your brain to grow and learn. This is going to help me in writing because if Mrs. Reuter asks me to try something different for what I'm trying and it doesn't work, then I can try again and will remember not to do that again. Another thing that stood out to me was that every time I learn something new, my neurons will grow more connection and if I didn't already learn that then I will grow a new neuron. This will help me in writing because every time I learn something new in writing I will remember it and if I already learned about it, then it would be easy for me to remember. I also learned that when I was born my brain wasn't as strong as it is now because I hadn't learned how to do anything, but the next 10 years of my life were the strongest learning points in my life. This will help me as a writer because I now know that it I am the smartest version of myself that I will ever be and I will never have to try and be any smarter then I already am.

Jessica

2015-01-22 19:22:48 UTC

In the book your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak, I learned about different part's of your brain and neurons. There is exactly 5 different parts of your brain. But the Hippocampus really stuck out to me. The Hippocampus, is were all your memory goes. That seemed really interesting to me because that means all of the things I know are inside of my head. I also realized that the Hippocampus really helps you as a writer to remember the things you learned. Then I realized once you learn something new you get a new Neuron. I really wonder how many Neurons do you get each day? Neurons happen a lot to me in Writing because you can find different ways to write things. I also learned the everyday quote "You learn from your mistakes." Is actually very true. Each time you have a mistake you learn from it and learning from that mistake causes you to get more connections with the Neurons. That taught me to not be afraid of mistakes because in the end you learn from that mistake. Your brain is a BIG part of writing.

Kyle K.

2015-01-22 19:22:53 UTC

you can get new neurons every time you learn about something new. the brain is not a muscle it is tissue. even when you mess up learning something new you are still training your brain It can help me grow as a writer by making me smarter and let me learn new things .

Ellie

2015-01-22 19:22:53 UTC

The brain can do many things. Did you know that your brain is an organ. Most people think it is a muscle but it's not. If you aren't willing to risk being wrong you wont take any chances to stretch your fantastic elastic brain. I learned that knows most from the age 1-10 that decade is called the magic decade. Stretching my brain and shaping my brain can help me grow as a writer this year because I can expand my vocabulary and learn more on how to be a better writer. One quote that stuck out to me was "Even when you make a mistake while trying something new, your still training your brain". This is important to because it is saying never give up and always learn from your mistakes.

Leo

2015-01-22 19:23:04 UTC

My Fantastic Elastic brain can help me with memorizing things and help me keep my balance so I can run and play. Plus, my brain learns as it goes on and if something didn't turn out right, it knows not do that again. My brain can help me as a writer by learning new writing strategies and memorize them so I know how to do them later on. Another way my brain can help me as a writer is that if I use something or a strategie(s) that doesn't really pull the reader in, I know not to try it anymore.

Spencer

2015-01-22 19:23:18 UTC

One thing that I learned about my brain was that it has a "File cabinet", to help you remember important things in your life. In writing, that helps me because it helps me think about what to write about and to have a back story to that. The next thing that I learned about my brain was that it helps me feel emotions and feelings. That helps me in writing because then I can put emotion into my writing to make it more interesting. Another thing is, is that it helps me make good decisions. In writing, it helps me make decisions on what to write about, and how I am going to write it. Another thing that I learned about my brain was that it helps me learn from mistakes. That helps me in writing because then whenever I make a mistake, next time I know how to do it right. The last thing that I learned about my brain was that when I make a mistake, my brain grows and knows how to do that the very next time.

Kade

2015-01-22 19:23:24 UTC

one thing that I learned about my brain is that it's no actually a muscle and that it's actually an organ! That your brain grows fastest when your 10 or younger . Even if you fail trying something you still learn from that mistake. That learning some thing knew can cause the brain to have more nerons . stretching my brain can help me as a writer by making my brain bigger and able to do so much more things than I could before like write literary essays.

Zac

2015-01-22 19:23:32 UTC

I learned that when you make a mistake your still training your brain that that's not the right decision. Also when your brain stretches it helps in writing because there's a part in your brain that helps you remember everything that happened before.Another fun fact about brains is that it helps you move around speak balance and more

Rohan

2015-01-22 19:23:32 UTC

One thing that I learned about the brain is that it is not a muscle it is a organ! The brain grows the fastest in the first 10 years of your life.The brain has many different parts that help you. For example the Hippocampus is like a filing cabinet for your memories .I think that stretching and shaping my brain can help me in many different ways. One way that it can help me is that I can learn new things about the strategies of writing and put them in my Hippocampus so I can remember them and it will be easier to write about certain topics.

Rachel P.

2015-01-22 19:23:58 UTC

Something that stuck to me while reading this book, Your Fantastic Elastic Brain, was that the Prefrontal Cortex helps you plan and make decisions. This could help me as a writer to remember the important things in writing, like how to write certain essays, like Literary Essay, or Personal Essay, or something like plain old normal essays. And it could help me by helping me make decisions on how to write my essay, and which way to take my essay to make it better. Other than this, there are many, many ways anyone can help their fantastic elastic brain grow.

Nick P.

2015-01-22 19:24:01 UTC

The brain helps you move think and get smarter. It also helps you feel and touch. The brain is not a musle. It controls you. Your brain helps you remember things. Even if you make a mistake while your learning something new you are learning something. If you take a risk you get neurons. Learning something causes the brain to get neurons. How it helps me as a writer is the brain helps me remember words and how to spell them without that you can not write.

Madelyn P.

2015-01-22 19:24:02 UTC

I discovered that my brain is a very powerful organ that helps me do every thing! Even when I make mistakes it helps train my brain to not make that mistake again and when you do it correctly you are building more neuron connects. All the thing in my fantastic elastic brain help me in writing. Like if I make a mistake I can still learn from it and it helps my brain grow. As we keep practicing our writing its helping our brains grow. Remember we are all Neurosculptor!

Braden B.

2015-01-22 19:24:06 UTC

I learned how the brain helps us in many ways. It especially helps me in writing because the part of the brain that taps into my inner emotions and expressions helps me be myself while I write. I also learned about the part of the brain that helps you remember what to write and that really helps me in writing. I learned a lot about all the tiny neurons in your brain too.

Naren K.

2015-01-22 19:24:11 UTC

I connected a LOT of Neurons today. I learned a lot of things today. One thing that I learned is that when you make mistakes,it actually makes your brain grow. You should keep trying until you get it.I learned a lot about the brain parts and what job they do. When you keep on growing, your brain does the same thing. I also learned that the brain is a organ only,but not a muscle. Cerebrum is the longest part in your brain. Making mistakes is a good thing. You can only connect neurons when learn something new. You can connect neurons when you learn anything and it doesn't matter what it is.The brain is most important part of your body because you can do nothing without a brain. I also learned that the brain controls all your emotions. It also controls all of your body parts.As you get older and older, your brain will get old too. As you make mistakes more neurons will grow in your brain.Your brain will grow too

Logan M.

2015-01-22 19:24:16 UTC

When we were reading the book today I learned that you are able to shape your own brain.which can help me write,because If I can shape my brain to learn writing and stuff like that.and sense it grows during the first ten years of your life I could make it learn writing.

AlGene C

2015-01-22 19:24:20 UTC

After reading Your Fantastic Elastic Brain. I found out that there are different parts to my brain. The cerebrum, forefront cortex, cerebellum, and Hippocrates. I also found out that there are things called neurons. Neurons tell my body to do something.

I think the forefront cortex, and neurons help me as a writer. The forefront cortex helps me as a writer because. The forefront cortex controls my feelings. So it helps me decide if I should change something or not. I think neurons help me because they contoles my whole body and tells me what to do

Sarah H

2015-01-22 19:24:54 UTC

Did you know that when Einstein was little he didn't know all the smart things he did when he died. That's because when he was little his brain was weak and ounce he was a bout ten his brain stopped growing as fast as it did when he was 5 or 3. His brain was 0.2 times bigger than the normal man. not saying he wasn't normal.

Today we read the book "Your Fantastic Elastic Brain!" I learned that our brain is like a battery and our brain is our battery. I also learned that our brain is an organ NOT a mussel. when I was born my brain was weak just like Einstein's brain and like yours.You learn from your mistakes everyone knows that! Did you know that you brain has a limit to how many mistakes you can make! but it dose have a limit to how many fingers you can cut off.This is a fact, If you are willing to take chances, you will succeeded in life and if you don't tack chances in your life, you will be a baby the whole rest of your life.

I think that streching and shaping my brain helps me grow as a writer in writers workshop because I can take all the Nurons I have and use them while I am writing and so it doesn't get boring to read.

Jade

2015-01-22 19:25:03 UTC

Today I learned something new. I learned that even if you make a mistake while learning something new, you are still training your brain. This is a good fact because it's basically saying that you learn from your mistakes. I also learned that our brain grows the most during our first ten years of our lives. This can help me understand as a writer and help me because I know now that if I make a mistake or don't know how to do something in writing, It's fine to mess up because then you will learn from you mistake and hopefully not make the same mistake again and if your not willing to make mistakes then you wont have an opportunity to stretch your fantastic elastic brain!

Michael

2015-01-22 19:25:12 UTC

I learned that the brain has so many parts that help me. I also learned that learning something new causes the brain to grow more connections among the neurons. This can help me become a better writer because I learned that even if I make a mistake, I am still training my brain.

Gavin

2015-01-22 19:26:35 UTC

Today I learned that my brain is made out of cells and tissue. The cerebrum helps me think of what is going on in the story and how to talk about different texts. Even while you make a mistake, you are still learning. Another part of the brain helps me make a decision on what to write. Learning something new causes connections in the nuerons. Even reading the book allowed me to connect nuerons!

Jival

JivalBluWhaleKd — 2015-01-22 19:27:26 UTC

I reviewed today that my brain has many parts which have important jobs like memory ,emotions,speaking ,walking and many other jobs which my brain performs. Our brain makes you different from others like I like Blue Whales while others might like lions or something else.Without our brain we wont be able to think.In writing your mind decides what your story will be about ,Title ,Lead ,etc. Stores your special moments for personal narratives .Every time you make a mistake you learn from it ,your brain understands what you did wrong and makes a solution even though few times they don't work and then you need to try a new formula .If you give up and stop correcting your mistake you will never learn.Your brain makes you take risks and make a better solution if you didn't do it right on the first time which is really important for the process of learning because making mistakes and then fixing it is the best way to learn.Without our brain we couldn't do any thing we would be like a tree we would not be able to think ,we would be almost useless (even though they have a really important part in nature they cant type,learn , research or anything similar like that).

Maxwell

2015-01-22 19:28:11 UTC

I leaned that me brain has a thing called a hippocampus. It helps me remember things. I can use this in my writing to help me remember writing strategies. There is also the prefrontal cortex witch lets me make decisions. This can be helpful in writing class because if there is a chance I can use a better word than "ran" I can make the decision to use the words "dashed" or "sprinted."

Alex O

2015-01-22 19:39:06 UTC

l learned that my brain can do a lot of good things like it controls everything I do and if I make a mistake it stretches my brain and learning something can make new neurons and parts of my brain is like a safe of all my thoughts and ideas and lets me make decisions and move my body parts.

Kirsten

2015-01-23 02:46:55 UTC

Today in class we were given the opportunity to learn about our brain. I had already known a few things about the brain, but after reading the book Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak, Ph.D I learned A LOT more! It taught me all about the different parts of the brain, which I thought was really interesting because it told me the names and places of the different parts of the brain that help me do things like feel, taste, see, hear, and smell, or feel different emotions. The Amygdala is the part of the brain that allows you to have emotions, such as happy, sad, scared, amazed, etc. Another thing in our brain that I learned more about are neurons. Neurons connect to other neurons whenever you learn something new. They help you connect things and bring in back round knowledge. When I was reading this book I remembered how just the same week I had met a lady that is a therapist and she taught me and some other kids about the human brain. My neurons connected this. This book makes us realize how much our brain really does for us! I When we learn about the brain it can help us to better know what our brain is constantly doing as we write and learn in writer'a workshop. Every time we learn something new it is giving us a broader amount of knowledge on a topic that we can write about. We can also have more back round knowledge and understanding of something we are reading or reasearching. No matter what we are doing, our brain always plays a huge part.

Tyler J

2015-01-23 12:24:47 UTC

Reagan

2015-03-05 20:12:17 UTC

We read the book "Fantastic Elastic Brain" By Joann Deak we learned all about our brains and that there are different parts of it that do different things ad that when we learn new stuff we connect new neurons so learning new strategies to write connects our writing neurons so we can write even better stories with our new found neurons!

Caden R

2015-03-10 19:11:44 UTC

Stretching your brain can help you as a writer because when you get more neurons you are learning new things and then your vocabulary can expand. You can also have better stamina because you know more about writing. Once you practice something you eventually get very good at it.