The big news today in my classroom was "We got mail!" If you've read my blogpost on The Three Ninja Pigs then you'll know that the author, Corey Schwartz, commented on my post. This led to an email exchange, bookmarks for my students, and her offer to respond to any letters they wrote to her. What teacher can pass up a real-life writing assignment like that? So my students went through the writing process, produced their final copy letters, and I took photos of their papers using our document camera in the classroom. I then emailed Ms. Schwartz the jpegs--easy peasy!
And today, Ms. Schwartz was kind enough to send her replies! Not just one letter to the class, but a reply to each individual student and our one group letter. I printed out duplicates so we could keep one of each in class and the students could take their own copy home. I've distributed half of the letters; the other half will go out later this week, when the students are done with content focus groups. Ms. Schwartz has asked them some questions of her own; I think we'll be writing more letters soon!
I love this avenue for exhibiting our IB learner profile of "communicator"!
And today, Ms. Schwartz was kind enough to send her replies! Not just one letter to the class, but a reply to each individual student and our one group letter. I printed out duplicates so we could keep one of each in class and the students could take their own copy home. I've distributed half of the letters; the other half will go out later this week, when the students are done with content focus groups. Ms. Schwartz has asked them some questions of her own; I think we'll be writing more letters soon!
I love this avenue for exhibiting our IB learner profile of "communicator"!
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