Word Families

We have been working hard to learn word families.

We are using our reading notebooks to record our word family patterns.

The students have loved acting our word families, just ask the 

op siblings. :)

Kindergarten Friends,

Keep practicing your word families here:

I Spy Growing Readers and Writers

Looking around the room today during Daily 5 made my teacher heart seriously HAPPY! 

Growing readers and writers engaged in meaningful literacy activities everywhere I looked.

So proud of the hard work we have put in...

 and each and every one of my growing readers and writers!

Sometimes, it's the little things...

Authors, Illustrators, & Characters, oh my!

I love, love, love using notebooks with my Kindergarten students!

It is such a fun, flexible way to capture student learning. 

ALL of my students can be successful - 

and work at their own level. 

In Reader's Workshop we've been focusing on the parts of a book, authors, illustrators, and characters.

Here are some examples of the awesome learning that is going on in our room. 

parts of a book

An author writes the words.

An illustrator creates the pictures. 

Pout Pout fish inspired by Dan Hannah:

I can draw Pigeon like Mo Willems. 

Characters by Mo Willems:

I can draw David just like David Shannon. 

Click here to read other ways we use our reading notebooks.  

I have added several new prompts to my Reading Notebook labels on TpT. 
There are now 100 prompts that are all tied to the Kindergarten ELA CCS! 
Check it out:

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Celebrating Growing Readers and Writers

It is so important to take a little time to celebrate the hard work that students put in everyday. 

Last Friday we had 2 (!!!!!) celebrations to celebrate our growth in reading and writing!!

My book lovers club members have been hard at work during reader's workshop. 

We've learned:

how to take of books

parts of a book

the 3 ways to read a book

why practicing reading is so important

finding good fit books

and what being a book lover is all about.

We decided to have a Book Lovers Bash to celebrate all of this growth.

Students brought in their favorite books to share with other members. They had discussions at their tables about WHY the book they chose is so great and why it is so special to them. 

We also had a special guest reader join us

Mr. Weber read If You Take a Mouse to School and Knuffle Bunny!

He also shared that WE INSPIRED his daughter to start a book lovers club in her neighborhood!!

LOVE!!!!!

Way to go book lovers!

We spent the rest of our bash relaxing and reading. 

In the afternoon parents joined us for a Writing Celebration. We celebrated pigeon style with a Hot Dog Party. :)

Here are some fun pics from our celebration:

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Check out THIS POST to see all of the things we have been doing in writer's workshop leading up to this celebration! 

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