Developing a Love of Literacy

As you may have read in the newsletter, we've been enjoying books by author/illustrator Leo Lionni over the last two weeks.  There are so many reason why I like to teach with his books- relatable characters, rich language, empowering messages, beautiful artwork and still more. I hope you have a chance to stop by the hallway outside our room to see our mural in person, but in the pictures below you will see us creating paper mice in Leo's style. Next we assembled them together in a scene that was created to look like pages in the book Frederick.  Just the way Frederick contributes to getting ready for winter by saving up words for future poems, we brainstormed and "saved" words that are special to us for stories we will write in the future. And speaking of story writing, take a look at some budding authors drawing and writing about their circus experience in their journals!

This writer is combing words from a word list with known words to enhance her message.

This writer understands that if she has more to say she may need more paper!