Pen Pals with Miss Thurin's Class

Topics Addressed:
+ Friendly letter format
+ Addressing envelopes
+ Writing with detail
+ Punctuation
+ Grammar
+ Neatness
+ Direction Following
+ Sequence

These 19 third grade students from Louisville, Ohio are very different from us. That is what is exciting about writing to them! Louisville is more of a rural, farming community. It should be interesting to share our similarities and differences while writing.

We do not use last names, telephone numbers or home addresses when writing these letters. However, I have been surprised by the number of students in fourth grade who do not know their full address. Some don't know the order and others only know how to give it in the "city style" they've heard so often. For example: "I live at 19th and Bryant." That IS a location, but it's not a MAILING ADDRESS. This is something easily practiced at home.

Miss Thurin visited Saint Anthony-Immaculate conception in spring 2002 when fourth grade was still on the Treat Campus.