Letter to....

Grade 5's,

as you have noted and expressed during our discussion today, the recreational parks in our neighborhood are looking rather unsanitary, as if little attention has been paid to the cleanliness of its environment! Since you all felt so strongly about how dirty your local parks have been I've decided as a class we will write a letter to someone in charge of this matter, in hopes they will listen and help us.

Your job for the next class is to identify who is in charge of our local parks and garbage/littering. Next, find out this person(s) name because we will have to address them in our letter. Most importantly, come to class prepared with at least 3 ideas as to why we should care about our parks, and why it is important to you and other children to keep our local parks clean!

For this lesson, students, I am combining a language lesson with a social studies lesson. I am interested in knowing how well you know the differences between the three levels of the Canadian government in which we discussed a few days ago. As well, I am interested in reading a piece of your writing. I really want to hear your voices jump out at the page, but I also want there to be strong evidence as to why you truly believe this is an important issue to be addressed.

For more information on how to construct a letter, visit the link below. Remember you are not expected to have a letter completed by next class, just some ideas. However, this link should help organize your thoughts if needed! Check it out :)

Scholastic SCOPE

This is what you should see when you click on the link!

Parents,

for the purpose of this lesson, the grade 5 boys and girls will be targeting 2 overall language expectations for their grade level. These expectations are the following:

Grade 5 - Language - Writing 
Overall Expectations: 
1. generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose
and audience;
3. use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language
conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively;