community collaboration

This past week the third grade writers invited us to be part of their persuasive writing process. Working in partnerships the third graders interviewed the kindergarteners, asking what is going well in our school, what they love, and what we need to work on. This was an authentic opportunity to practice essential skills; speaking and listening, responding to a question, collecting information, and engaging in dialogue.

At the end of the year we will write persuasive pieces and can reflect on this experience to help us prepare for that kind of writing. We can remember the notebooks and the visual that the third grade writers used to help them gather and record information, we can remember the language they used and the questions they asked. We can learn from our older peers just like they can learn about school from us.

We enjoyed having the third graders in our classroom and will welcome them back next week to hear their pieces and share a community snack. This writing experience provides meaningful collaboration and community building across classrooms!