Our year 6 Graduation Dinner is booked for December 4th and we will start working on some fun things to do for the night. The first thing I am asking the students to do as individuals is to write a letter to their parents, but they are going to fast forward to 2018 when the students will be 21 and 22. I know that most of them think they will never be that age, but I assured them they will.
The letter is to include information about their aspirations re occupation, lifestyle, car, pets, where they are living and what they are doing. They need to remember, that mum and dad will of course know all this – so their letter has to be a chatty letter, which lets us know what it is you are up to.
eg. Dear mum and dad, you should have seen the cute little kitten that came in today. We had to operate on it’s eye and it was so tiny. The vet up the road was busy, so we had to take it. I was pleased to get home tonight and obviously Brutus was pleased to see me. These little staffies are the cutest little dogs. I’m pleased that I am able to keep a pet in these lovely St Kilda Road units – I would be lost without him. (you get the picture)
I asked the students to use adjectives and to “show – don’t tell.” I look forward to posting some of their letters here next week, for you to read.