Making their Marks!!!

Lots of fun things are happening in 4Z:

The children have begun Writer's Workshop.  They are working on Personal Narratives for this trimester.  We discussed hooks this week and will bait their readers with a great one so that the writer captures the reader's attention.  

                                Friday we celebrated Dot day.  I read the book, The Dot, by Peter Reynolds and even listened to the song.  They created structures using candy dots and toothpicks only.  There was a lot of cooperative/team work involved and the children were very engaged.  They also were given a blank sheet of paper with just a dot on it and they created a picture.

Every child was asked to make their mark on chart paper.

Every day I read a book to them and we discuss the message in each one.  Sometimes we do an activity, other times we have great conversations about the book.  We will have 180 books read by the end of the school year.