Conferencing at Smithland

I have not been able to find the time to meet with Audrey and she left town for a family vacation this week, so I asked Katie if I could go to her kindergarten class.  I went for the first time today and it was very helpful.  I was able to conference with four different students during the 45 minutes of writing time.  It was very nice being able to work in a classroom setting.  It was also nice to be in a class that has been practicing the writing workshop process for a couple of months.  The students got right to work and were comfortable sharing their writing with me.  I was able to help some kids improve their writing, so I felt good about that.  One girl needed to add names to her writing piece and she did that after reading it to me.  I asked her who the characters were and she realized she needed to label the pictures.  One of the students realized he needed to create a title page after we looked over a poster Katie had made listing all of the things a published piece would include.  I was hoping he would add more words, but he didn't seem interested in that.  I would like to encourage him to add words to his story next week.  He has great pictures and the story makes a lot of sense.  He is capable of writing, b/c I have seen his other books.  I may ask for some advice on this one.