Our Class Persuaded Ms. Pavlicek!

We combined our Non-Fiction persuasive writing with our science unit on Caring for Pets and we learned what animals need to live and how to care for them. We then voted on what animal we should write about to convince Ms. Pavlicek that we were ready to take care of one of the science center animals. 9 students in our class wanted Olive the Rabbit to come visit our room. We learned that when you write a persuasive letter you need to have a catchy opening to grab your readers attention. Then the writing needs to tell the reader what you want, give reasons why the reader should agree and the writing should have a strong ending- Be Bossy! Ms. Pavlicek was impressed by our writing and she brought Olive to our classroom for a few weeks to visit. The students are doing a great job taking care of Olive. They all appear to LOVE her and she is getting a lot of attention, at times too much attention.