{Pets Rock!}

Man, did we have a fun week learning about pets and animal needs! We read so many fun books and made our own Animal Need Flip Book. We also learned about the features of nonfiction texts and made our own class book on pets. We incorporated persuasive writing this week by writing letters to our parents to convince them to buy us a pet. We modeled our writing after the book I Wanna Iguana. 

Our favorite part of the week was our Pet Rock Project!

The students completed Planning Pages that looked like this:

They made their pet rocks at home:

And then, they wrote persuasive pieces to convince me that their pet rock should win "Best in Show!":

Of course, they were so great I couldn't pick just one winner! All Pet Rocks received a special award!