Universal Missive Of The Alphabet Writing Calendar Week 2016

Friday, nosotros participated inwards ane of my favorite activities of the year:

Universal Letter Writing Week

I started this tradition during my get-go yr of teaching. I was researching ideas for pupil council when I came across the fact that the mo calendar week of Jan is Universal Letter Writing Week. I excitedly began envisioning tables gear upwardly inwards the hall alongside missive of the alphabet writing materials. My pupil council kids were non impressed alongside the idea. So, I decided I would learn inwards hand off inwards my classroom instead.

This has taken dissimilar forms inwards dissimilar years. Some years, we've written a missive of the alphabet each hateful solar daytime every bit a warm-up activity. This year, I gave them the chore to write 3 letters on a unmarried hateful solar daytime (and a quiz, too)! The get-go missive of the alphabet they wrote was to a instructor inwards our building. The mo missive of the alphabet they wrote had to endure to mortal who industrial plant inwards our schoolhouse that is non a teacher. And, the 3rd missive of the alphabet could endure to anyone they wanted. Some wrote letters to friends, menage unit of measurement members, or some other instructor off the list. I intentionally did non set my hollo on the listing of teachers students could write to, as well as thus 3 students chose to write me a missive of the alphabet every bit their 3rd choice. I watch that was real sweet!

The best utilization near missive of the alphabet writing is the origami envelope that nosotros crease the letters inwards to. This makes the letters stack actually nicely to endure delivered to the recipients. Plus, my kids merely actually bask folding paper.

Jan is the type of calendar month where it's slow for teachers to learn depressed as well as overwhelmed, as well as I know that a few nice, thoughtful words tin brand a huge deport upon on a teacher's day. I intend our kids demand to endure pushed at times to demo their gratitude. I know many of my coworkers possess got kept these letters from previous years because I've seen them inwards their classrooms. It's ever fun to deliver the stacks of letters because everyone knows just what they are since this is my quaternary yr doing this alongside my students.

This is the type of affair that would endure cracking to exercise alongside students whatsoever fourth dimension of the year. It doesn't possess got to endure the mo calendar week of January. Just declare it "Letter Writing Week" at your school. Or, "Letter Writing Day."