Persuasive Writing on the Seasons

Which Season Is the Most Important?
While we learned that all seasons are important, the students of Room 111 took their writing to another level and chose one season to write about.  Their goal: to persuade their readers that their chosen season was the most important.

Step One: Learning about all of the seasons:
First we watched educational videos and read books on each individual season:




Step Two: We recorded our facts into our seasons notebooks:

Step 3: We learned about the features of good persuasive writing:



Step 4: We each chose a season to write about, outlined our writing on our panning sheets and began our rough drafts:

Step 5: We created our persuasive posters.  We started with writing a beginning to hook our readers.  We then supported this topic sentence with reasons, facts and pictures.  Some pictures were drawn and others were photos which went with our words.  Here we are sharing our posters with each other:

Here are our Persuasive Posters!  Enjoy!

Our Trip to the Museum of Science

After studying about the sun, moon and constellations in the classroom, we traveled to the Museum of Science to experience space in the planetarium. The show was exciting!  We talked about the Sun, blasted off to the moon and observed the Earth from outer space.  We also saw and heard the many stories about constellations that we see in our Winter, Spring, Fall and Summer skies.  

After the show, we roamed around the exhibit and discovery museum areas.  Here are some photos of our fun time!  Special thanks to all of the chaperones who helped in making this such a fun and informative trip!