As part of my students' Black Bear Community Service Learning project they want people to decorate cupcakes to look like bears. The idea is that when people visit their Neigh-BEAR-hood Watch Kids' booth at our schools' annual Hoedown the students will teach people about bears while they make a bear cupcake. Well, we will need a lot of cupcakes, plus other ingredients for this project, so we wrote letters to Publix asking for help. The children wrote letters explaining their project and what they need to make the project a success. This made a great persuasive writing lesson, it was meaningful and had a real world connection.
Friday after school, this student and I went to the office to check my mailbox for mail. We were pleasantly surprised to find a letter from Publix.
We couldn't wait to see what Publix had to say about helping us with our project.
To our amazement Publix graciously sent our class a $100.00 giftcard. We will be writing lots of Thank-you letters on Monday. More purposeful writing. Yay! I love it when a project comes together!
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