Passing Notes
The Big Idea: Handwritten notes can have a big impact on the reader as well as the writer.
Grade Range: Elementary 3rd-5th Grade
Description: Students will engage in written communication activities for a variety of purposes.
Learning Lens: communication, word choice, creativity, fine motor skills, language, expression
Potential Roles and Actions: letter writing; community; business; friendship; career; problem solving; inspiration; expression; personal signature; thank you notes; pen pals; penmanship; manuscript; cursive
Writer's Code of Behavior:
We keep ourselves safe.
We keep each other safe.
We keep our things safe.
Tigers R.O.A.R.!
(Responsible, Observant, Always Kind, Respectful)
Resources:
Invention of Paper - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COxB_GvdzWI
An Introduction to Letter Writing | Reading Rockets