In addition to the excitement of the circus, we found some time this past week to sink into some writing. Below you can have a look at the children putting together an "8 page book". It's a literacy activity that has become familiar to the group. These books are made to support themes we are studying, feature "popcorn" words and emphasize using picture clues to read. After the children complete the book with writing, drawing, cutting, putting the pages in order and stapling, they read it to a teacher and place it in their book box to re-read in the future. As I taught the class in Reader's Workshop this week: "when you're done, you've just begun". Readers become even stronger and learn more when they go back and re-read!
Another important writing activity this week was the start of "write around the room" as a literacy choice. Below you can see a student independently "copy writing" words that are important to her from around the room. In this way children deepen their learning by connecting the way a word looks to the way it sounds and what it means.
...And to end the week we headed to the Pumpkin Patch!
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