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Celebrating Nonfiction Writing
Our Grade 3/4 class has completed creating their very own nonfiction books. They each chose a topic that was meaningful or interesting to them. Recently, they enjoyed sharing their beautiful nonfiction...
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Despite learning from a distance, you have been working so well on completing your stories.I feel like the blog is an easier space to share your work, so that’s why we’re here! Leave a comment below...
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Punc.tua,tion!? Matter:s
Why do teachers always talk about where to put periods commas quotation marks Mrs Sullivan read us a funny book called Punctuation Takes a Vacation Our class really liked the story and thought it was...
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Penpals!
Have you ever had a penpal? It’s fun to communicate with someone and especially fun to get a reply! We’ve been corresponding with another class from Oakville and will continue to the end of this school...
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Poetry Revision
We’ve been writing poetry the last few weeks and are nearing the end of our unit. Our focus has been on free-verse poems which we love because there are NO rules! We’ve been learning about how to find...
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A Work of Heart
We are learning to be wide awake as writers and pay attention to what amazing stories we have to tell from our own lives. Our first unit is writing a personal narrative which is a true story about...
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After many weeks of learning about personal narratives, we finally had our Publishing Party to celebrate our finished work! In our unit on personal narratives, we learned how to generate ideas, how to...
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Welcome to February!
January has come and gone and the learning continues in our classroom. Students are hard at work learning about nonfiction text features, how reading nonfiction differs from reading fiction, and more....
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This year, we’ve been practicing a lot with writing sentences. We’ve learned about making our sentences varied and more complex, bumping up our sentences with juicy words, and much more! Many students...
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Writing Poetry: Using an Image as Inspiration
Pictures are worth a thousands words…as the saying goes. Lately, we’ve been looking at images to spark ideas, questions, thoughts, emotions. In class, we’ve brainstormed ideas and words that come to...
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