Happy Friday!

Here is a look at one of the tasks we did this week: Mountaintop Writing

Learning Intentions: 

• Sharing perspectives on a topic in a clear and focused manner.
• Developing creative expression through a range of sentence beginnings, lengths, and types.
• Sequencing sections of writing in a logical order.
• Revising written texts for accuracy, clarity, or appeal by adding, removing, or changing words or sentences.
  

Mountaintop writing is an activity we do once a month.  It starts with the teachers reading a story connected to the topic and the students listening carefully.  Then, the topic is shared and students brainstorm of ideas through listening to each other and sharing their perspectives.  Then, students are given time to answer the topic through writing and visually through a picture connected to the topic that they then are asked colour carefully.  Students are reminded of writing conventions, the important or reading and revising their work. These pieces are proudly displayed in our classrooms.

At the end of the year, students put all the Mountaintop writing pages together in a book and notice how their writing has evolved over the year.   

This upcoming week we are excited to go for a community walk and to also show the kids where the evacuation site is for our school should we ever have to evacute the building.  So, our community walk will go by Foundations for the Future.

 

Pictures:

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Ms. Legere