The Writing Process!

Today we discussed all the steps of the writing process and for the remainder of the year students will go through the whole process for each piece of writing. BIG NEWS, we are now writing paragraphs! You will start seeing their final copies coming home. 

Paragraph Writing

Black History Project!...Due Friday, 2/5

Black History Writing Project will come home tomorrow.  Each child will bring home a heart with a name of a famous African American.  You and your child should research this particular person and write 2-3 sentences on: who they are and what they are remembered for.  Please have your kinder write their name on the BACK of the heart and cut the heart out.  We will be making a class book after they present these on Friday.  Each kinder will take a turn bringing the finished project home to share with their family.  Thank you for your support at home!
Project Due: Friday, 2/5

Who Am I?

We made inferences last week on various animals according to clues and footprints. We then made our own footprints and clues for our new billetin board. Ask your kinder about this fun writing craftivity!(Elliott's is pictured below).

Super Writing!

I was so proud of this piece of writing in Dominic's homework notebook that I had to show it off! Way to go, Dom! 

Pen Pals!

Spicy Writing!

A few awesome pieces of writing!

Pen Pals!

We received a letter today from a kindergarten class at Queen of All Saints. A dear friend's sister, who I've known since I was in kindergarten, came up with the idea to have our classes be pen pals while we are both teaching letter writing. The kids loved it and we instantly wrote back! Ask your kinder to sing you the five parts of a letter: heading, greeting, body, closing and signature (tune of head and shoulders). 

Time to Spice Up Writing!

It is typical at this age to do a lot of the "I like/ I love" writing. They are at a point where they can write more than one or two sentences, but they tend to topic hop. We've talked about focusing on one topic and adding details to "spice" up our writing and make it interesting for our audience. I pulled in a former student near and dear to my heart, Milo, a second grader in Mrs. Wright's class. He mastered the spicy writing in kindergarten so I knew he was just the one for the job! I gave him the simple story "I like Thanksgiving. I love hanging out with my family and eating. I like turkey." Boy oh boy did he wow the kinder crew!!! He had history, jokes and details galore. The kiddos loved listening to him and I think (and hope) the spicy writing will be contagious around here in the near future! 

Writer's Workshop

All About the Turkey!

Last week we had some fun with the book There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie. We discussed and charted our favorite Thanksgiving foods and turned our bulletin board into "If I were the old lady, I'd swallow__________ because ___________." 

Spiders!

This was one of my favorites! They did some great opinion writing this week, supporting their thoughts with details. We even got out paint and glitter for our spiders! Woohoo! I'm hanging these gems in the hall so they will come home in a few weeks. Be sure to ask your kinder about their opinion!

Opinions!

Today we used a pictograph to graph whether we think a spider would make a good pet or not. We'll use this in math tomorrow but today we started an opinion writing piece and talked about how we should support our opinions with details. They came up with some supporting details!

Writing with Details

Details was another part of our writer's workshop today. They enjoyed going through my writing samples and decided the last one was definitely more exciting to read as the audience. We discussed how details can really spice up our writing and make it exciting for the readers!

Kindergarten Writing Rubric

Today we discussed what a rubric is and how to use this to check their own writing using this. I will use this to grade random writing samples. It is posted in the room as well as on their BEE folders.

When I Was Little...

For a shared writing lesson today we had some fun incorporating our book from reading this week.  We made connections to the girl in the story with her memories from when she was "little".  We had a great time giggling through everyone's "When I was little I...but now I..."  Enjoy :)