Students in Shannon Johnson's fourth grade class at Fisher Elementary School wanted to share news of a school event, so they decided to write their own news story.
The story highlights an assembly at the school which was a surprise to the Fisher teachers for Boss's Day. Principal Vicki Vopava donned a pirate costume to talk about the real treasures being the teachers in the school and students displayed a banner they filled with drawings.
The article was part of a unit Johnson's class was involved in at the time.
"My class was studying how to write a newspaper article at the time and we wrote this together," Johnson said.
Johnson said after the assembly for the students brainstormed ideas of words to use for the story.
"They used interesting vocabulary to describe the events of the day and all 20 students sat in front of my desk and took turns reading their ideas to me while I combined the ideas into the short write-up," she said.
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