Extra! Extra! Rooms 20 & 21 Press Release

As part of our study of fairy tales in conjunction with our class read aloud, The Sisters Grimm, students worked in cooperative groups, or "news teams," to create fairytale-inspired newspapers!  At our "press release" last week, students got a chance to read other teams' newspapers and give them specific comments and compliments in their "Letters to the Editors" notebooks!  It was a time to celebrate the hard work, cooperation, and creativity students exhibited in this short two-week project.

Students really flexed their writing muscles a lot in this project!  They wrote to entertain, inform, and persuade their readers through creating cover stories, ads, weather reports, and special features.  Students learned the difference in "voice" between a narrative of an event and a newspaper article of the same event.  Students also had the chance to grow their technology skills by using some of the more sophisticated features on Google Docs such as margins, font sizes, inserting photos and captions, and creating tables!  WOW!  When asked what they've learned from the experience of creating a newspaper, students' responses were varied and impressive!  Check them out below:

“The newspaper helped me and my team work together and it taught us about different forms of writing” -Ashley M. & Katie D.

“From creating a newspaper, we’ve learned how to inform, persuade and entertain” -John & William

“We’ve gotten better at working together as a team!!!” - Cailyn & Elizabeth

“We learned that working with a team is so much more fun and helpful than working alone.” - Ashley C. & Gabi B.

“From creating a newspaper we’ve learned to write a newspaper and you have to make it interesting. We have gotten better at typing from creating a fairytale newspaper.” -Abby & Gabby M.

“We have got better at creating newspaper articles, decision making and deciding on the weather advertisements.” -Dylan & Brandon

“From creating a newspaper, we learned how to create ads and do awesome cover stories as a team.” -Casey & Brandi

“I think we got better at typing doing the newspaper assignment. I think we got better at making tables on the Chromebooks.”- Ryann & Kayla

“From creating a newspaper, we are better when we work together. We’ve gotten better at fairy tales from creating the newspaper.” - Eden & Sam

“We’ve gotten better at using Chromebooks and creating a newspaper articles.” -Sydney & Julia

“From creating a newspaper, we learned how to type faster, work better in groups, to be creative with our writing and think about fairy tales. We also learned how to work tables and use snapshots.” -Sammy & Shane

“From creating a newspaper, we’ve learned more about fairy tales.” -Aria & Arianna

“We’ve gotten better at using teamwork from creating a fairy tale newspaper.” -Brad & Sam

“”By creating this newspaper, we have learned how to use our knowledge of fairytales in different ways. We have also learned better teamwork and gotten better at typing.” -Nate and Samir

“We learned how to be more creative by coming up with ads.” - Jasmyn & Brooke

“We have gotten better at using the chromebooks and working as a team from creating fairy tale newspaper.” -Michael, Ben & Nick

Check out the photos and be on the lookout for a tote bag of all NINE published newspapers coming home soon!  All families will have the chance to check out the newspapers and leave their own "letter to the editor" for our budding staff reporters!