Coming To a Classroom Near You...

As promised in a blog post before the March Break, we have begun to work on a variety of persuasive texts.  We have analyzed a sample persuasive letter and will be working on writing a collaborative one for practice.  We have decided to submit a name to the Bank of Canada as a class, of a Canadian heroine, since a woman will be featured on Canadian currency in 2018.  Stay tuned for our progress and check out this link for more information.

In the meantime, I have asked the students to start to consider a topic that is important to them because in the future they will be asked to craft a persuasive letter independently that will actually be mailed.  This would be a great topic of conversation around the dinner table.  I will be supporting them in all aspects of the writing process, but families can assist with the idea generation.

On Tuesday students were sent home with lottery tickets that the SAC is requesting be sold as their annual fund raiser.  Please consider supporting this effort.  Our SAC is fantastic and supports many school initiatives with the money that is raised.  Please return all SOLD or UNSOLD tickets and money by April 11.  Stay tuned for announcements regarding incentives.