This week during read alouds, we talked about text to text, and text to self connections. These are important skills that readers use during reading in order to comprehend the story or information. Here is an example of two books we enjoyed that were perfect to generate text to text connections, or similarities between the stories. The children LOVED this.
We worked on m and n in FUNdations this week. Letter writing in the smart board is a huge hit.
The children practiced letter formation on white boards and paper.
Writing m and n "the kindergarten way".
Wonderful concentration and hard work :)
The theme activity this week involved creating an (eaten) apple and labeling its parts. We a reading bushels of books all about apples, both fiction and non fiction.
In a Writers Workshop we talked about this big and important idea. The goal was for writers to add as much to their work as possible, by adding more details to pictures, perhaps writing labels and words, or adding another page to continue their topic.
Another core idea we practiced this week is, "writers are problem solvers...we are the boss of our own writing". This mini lesson teaches children about writing and illustrating independently and thinking of ways to solve 'stuck points'.
THis writer took special care to add details while illustrating. She kept adding more and more to her pictures to give more information about her idea.
Four Winds was just 'buggy'! We enjoyed a play about the changes different bugs go through. The word metamorphosis sure is a mouthful.
We then went garden area and outdoor classroom to search for insects or evidence of insects.
We found leaves with holes from bugs munching on them....
...we saw moths, dragonflies, ants, spiders, butterflies...
...and many kinds of egg pods.
Children collected grasshoppers and crickets too. It was so much fun to explore the insect world that surrounds CCS.
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