Open House Persuasive Success!

Our class experts waiting for their parents to arrive at our Open House!

A huge thank you to all of the families and students who were able to join us during our school's multicultural open house on Thursday May 8th! Particularly, to the families who came to our grade 2 classroom to visit our room. Students were so excited to show you all of the fun learning happening in our room. They were even more excited to learn that their open house persuasive writing letters worked!! Our letters were written to persuade you to join us and so many of our classmates arrived at school during the Open House elated that they were able to persuade you. The students came up with the persuasive reasons to get you to our classroom during our Open House. A huge thank you for your support and your presence on Thursday!


Throughout the classroom visit, our mandate was to have the student voice in our room be the guide. Students led parents around our classroom to show some of the great projects and assignments we have worked on over the past few months. Students used their persuasive reasons to show their families all of the exciting learning in our room.

It was lovely to see the pride by the students and the parent engagement as well. Our class is blooming with tech experts who showed their parents how to scan QR Codes, how to Tweet, how to record on the AudioBoo app, how to log into the Chromebooks and so much more! Students are leading much of the learning that takes place during our Literacy Centers, and our Open House evening highlighted some of the student-led inquiries within our room. For instance, the Teacher Center expert got to show her mom what we can do at the Teacher Center. The QR Code expert showed his mom how to scan a QR Code and how to add her thinking to our Padlet using the QR Code link. We also had some class tweeters and guest tweeters add to the fun too.

A future tech expert and tweeter taking videos in our classroom!

Thanks to our persuasive letters, we learned that our class won the challenge against Mrs. Swan's Class. Our class was the more persuasive class!! As a result,  Mrs. Swan's Class bought us a brand new book from the Book Fair. We have added the book to our class library. A HUGE thank you to Mrs. Swan and the grade 3's for the challenge, but most of all for the awesome new book for our classroom library.


Class and Guest Tweeters of the Open House:

HH says:We are going to have much fun to be with parents in open house also with my lovely teacher.
— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) May 8, 2014

i think m c is nice and lovely
— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) May 8, 2014

We created a PADLET to have parents and students write what they liked about visiting our classroom. Have a look at what some families posted about us. And if you'd like to add another idea...please feel free!

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