Splashing+into+Journalism

This fourth quarter sixth graders will take a dive into journalism. Mrs. Preston's sixth graders have been studying voice in reading and writing and are finally being put to the test to see if they've been paying attention in class and not texting. They will be starting off with a friendly letter to either a friend around their age or a family member in their age group. They will be puting these letters onto their wikis( an online computer typing program) and/or mailing them to their "friend". Next on the agenda is their newsletter. They have been working on this peice for a while now and have improved much. They understand that newsletters and "friendly" letters are very much different and in many ways the same. At the begining of the year they hardly knew a thing about writing, now it is much different and they are well into it. Thank you Mrs. Preston.