I love that she has filled her page with colors. I also love that she fearlessly stretched out words and wrote the sounds that she heard!
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i love the way kindergartners write! too cute!
Hey, maybe I am a princess–I like to watch tv in bed! 🙂
The set looks great!! And your kinders are terrific illustrators and writers!
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The terrific kinder illustrator is our Art teacher's daughter! I think she inherited some of her mama's talent!! 🙂 Awesome pictures though!!
I am curious about you writing the correct spelled word on your students writing. In our district it is a big no, no to write on their work. What are your thoughts on that? I don't necessarily agree that children take it as the adult telling the child that their writing does not have meeting, but that is the reasoning we are given and so we are not allowed to do any writing on their papers. Let me know if you have a chance. thanks.
whoops should have checked my comments… I meant to say I don't think the child takes the adult writing as telling them their writing does not have "meaning"….
Hi Sue, I know what you are saying. I have heard this before. I still write on my kids writing as a celebration of all of the sounds they heard in the word, so I believe it comes across positive. I don't do this for every word, everyday. Usually at this point, if I can read it, I leave it. However, if they write one of our word wall words (already introduced) incorrectly, I make them go back and fix it. I'm not sure where that fits in with the KWR frame of mind… probably a "no-no" too.
I am certain as I evolve as a writing teacher I will modify parts of my writing anatomy. But for now, this is where I am. I hope that makes sense.
Deedee, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I teach 4 year old kindergarten and my students do not have a strong letter/sound understanding yet and so many do more telling/dictating of their story then write. I do encourage them all to read their "writing" to hopefully move away from their descriptive story telling and I keep track of their stories by writing their words and or dictation on a grid. I also record what I am noticing in their drawing and writing, what skills they have and what I say them to encourage them to the next level. Of course it is a lot of record keeping, but it comes in handy to have their actual writing/dictation to record later on the monthly samples of their work that I keep. Thanks again for this thread of discussion, I am always interested in hearing how others do writers workshop in their classroom.
My kids enjoyed your Thanksgiving writing center materials! They loved making Thanksgiving cards. I ended up putting the list paper and the little food cards in our housekeeping center to encourage some writing there too. Thanks again!
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