5th Grade Thanksgiving Writing
Fifth Graders at Laburnum have been focusing on their writing. They’ve been studying the writing process and have practiced using good descriptive words. The school even has a writing wall where they showcase the students’ best writing samples. So one class had been working very hard writing about their Thanksgiving vacation and they wanted to publish their paragraphs with Pages. I came in and showed them how to change the font, size, and color of the text. We reviewed how to center the title and right justify their names. Then when they finished their writing they went to Pixie to get clip art. One of the really cool features of Pages is the comments. Just highlight a portion of text, click the comment button, and a comment box appears on the left where you can type suggestions or compliments. It’s great to use for peer revising and teacher proofreading. You can take a look at a sample paper with comments by clicking here.