Letter Building
We have continued to integrate key literacy concepts and learning into our morning hikes. This past week children built the letter c and o, using natural materials to create the curved or round line needed to construct both letters.
On Monday we built the letter o next to our beloved waterfall, using sand to trace the vowel while naming it and producing the sound. Pictures of the letters we've built on the trails decorate a wall in our classroom. Once all 26 letters have been built, the children will have a beautiful nature alphabet to reference and use.
Letter practice should always happen next to a waterfall!
Writing Workshop
Writers use pictures and words to teach about one topic.
The children have been working on adding details to their drawings and their words during writing workshop. We have two word writing strategies we can use in the classroom; we can stretch the word slowly like a rubber band, listening for the sounds we hear and we can use the classroom to find the word!
Below are a small collection of writing samples showing detailed drawings, labels that teach, and the children's use of beginning sounds.
You can read a B for balance beam in the first picture, a label for Danny the dog, a c for coop (next to stacked chickens!) and the word frog!
Oliver has been using detailed pictures in his teaching book about rock collecting and tumbling.
Do you see the skeleton and bones in Reid's teaching book about skeletons?
The Kindergarteners are experts on many, many things!
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