My Sister is coming..

If you have heard about my famous sister.. Glenhilda then you are probably wondering what she is all about!! Well she will be arriving on Halloween to come and make her brew with our class. Unfortunately I will be away that morning (wink wink). The kids are nervous and excited to meet her.. its all in good fun. Her visit elicits so many areas of learning. Including, procedural writing when we rewrite her brew, letter writing as they have been writing letters to her as well as reciveing letters from her also they have been trying to persuade her to stay way ( persuasive writing). All of these tasks are rich, real life tasks. They are not writing a letter because they have to, they are writing it because they want to. Children learn so much more when the tasks are real! To them these tasks are very real! I am excited to see how Monday goes!