Students who move away are given postcards to mail from their new homes. Outstanding student writing is displayed on the Madelyn Shoemaker Writing Post each week. These writers earn special certificates. Parents, visitors, and entire classes frequently visit the Writing Post to admire and enjoy writings. The Harbison West post office enables students and teachers to send cards and letters in-house.
Instruction is given on letter writing and the proper way to address envelopes.
Our third-graders sent a state representative their written pleas to ask her help in preventing the closing of a state planetarium. Thank you again for writing. You should always let elected officials know how you feel on issues. The benefits of our writing program clearly reach outside the classroom. Some of our upper elementary students bring their writing talents to a wider audience as writers for The State newspaper's Mini-Page Young Writers Staff .