It's a mad time of year because these Littles are making so
many connections! All the ground work, the foundation,
the important beginning steps are helping them to 'put it all together.'
They understand that they are 'growing their brains',
and are able to recognize how far they have come!
When the students share their Evidence of Learning folders
with their families I hope they do it with pride, because I
sure am proud of them!
March brought us the chance to start to read 'larger' books.
Each student can read most of 'The Cat in the Hat', 'Green Eggs and Ham',
'One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish' and they love ' Wacky Wednesday'.
Consider picking these books up at the library, which I hear is
open again. Let your Little one shine!
The students are working on different sentence writing aspects.
They shared their ideas with the sentence starters...
The Cat in the Hat is.....can.....has
Look closely because they are using adjectives for is, verbs for
can, and nouns for have. Of course at this level, they
are not being introduced to those parts of speech in the same
way that they will be in later grades, but they can understand the differences.
They chose one idea from each of the areas on their
graphic organizer (where they organize their thoughts
as we work as a class on ideas).
They then wrote a complete sentence for each and
WOW! it starts to look like a story!
Now you know why I say this is a mad time of year!
That doesn't mean that they don't make mistakes....
...and not everyone gets it the first time,
BUT we are making progress!
We made some wonderful crafts....Cat in the Hat directed drawings
adding some red watercolour paint, the children from the story
and those crazy helpers, Thing 1 and Thing 2!
We are truly blessed with this weather! We took advantage and
went outside to 'search' for ideas about senses.
They were drawing what they could see, hear, smell, touch
and what they SHOULD NOT taste!
They were so very focused!
Don't you love it!!?
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