Writer's Workshop

Last week we wrapped up opinion writing! The students were so engaged in their writing and did a wonderful job stating their opinions with strong reasons. We started off by writing opinions about anything and then moved to writing opinions about important matters of the world such as improving our country or world, or our own brains and bodies (ie: I think too much TV is not good for you.)  I will be sending home some samples of this writing next week. Opinion writing helped us to move easily into writing persuasive letters. The students are loving this. They are excited to try to persuade people (right now it is mostly parents) to do certain things such as build a tree house or sign them up for a new sports activity. We will continue with persuasive letter writing into next week and begin to write letters about important matters, just as we did with opinions. :) Here are a few pictures from opinion writing as well as some contraction kites that we made after learning about contractions today.