WRITING/BULLETIN BOARDS
Message in a Bottle

Submitted by: Betty Deatherage
From: McAlester, OK
Date Submitted: July 28, 2005

To help students with writing. Have the students choose from these:

• If a genie gave you three wishes, "What would they be?"
• You found a bottle with some mysterious paper inside, "What was written on the paper?"

After the students have written their papers, the teacher can take used water bottles (or any type of clear or colored plastic bottles with labels removed) and insert the messages. Next, put a cork in the opening and tie with brown rope cord and display on the classroom wall or in the hallway. Make a banner on the wall of a genie and bottle and have it say "Message in a Bottle" for your title.