Mr. Rennie's Class

  I have altered the website so that the students or parents can post their own blog entries. Just go to News and you'll see a "post new entry" button. You can add a poem, story or rant on a topic of your choice. Remember please that we don't use this forum as a place to put someone down or be negative. Otherwise be creative and have fun writing and reading. This week we will be sharing poems and stories with invitees from class. The kids will invite their classmates to read (but not edit) each others I Am From poems, memoirs and lessons from childhood pieces. Parents should feel free to read their kids work with them and even share their own connections and childhhod memories with their kids. Later next term the student's will explore third person narratives by interviewing and writing a parent memoir.

  On another issue, all students have been asked to remove theor last names from their site profiles. A form is coming home Monday to get permission for photo publishing. Please look for it.

   I am very satisfied with the work the syuden't have done so far in writing. We have explored a lot of what makes good writing and the improvement already is remarkable. Way to go us.