The Mitten

This week we read a story called "The Mitten" by Barbara McClintock. I felt it was the perfect story considering the extremely cold weather that we have endured the last few weeks! After reading the story the students were given a mitten shaped paper and they were asked to write a sentence telling about their favorite part of the story. I have to say that I was impressed with the quality of their writing. I am displaying their mitten stories in the hallway, but I will be sending them home in February for you to see and enjoy!

During kid writing I have started giving the students a prompt to follow. Part of the requirement for the report card is whether or not they can write on topic. When writing at home with your child I would encourage you to give them a topic to write about. Some children become overwhelmed when given a prompt and forget the basic writing skills. Modeling how to write according to topic is helpful and reminding them of their basic writing skills (i.e. capitalization, spacing, punctuation, neatness, organization) will be helpful.

Please remember that report cards will be coming home February 1st. I will start testing for the report cards over the next few weeks. As always it would be beneficial to review letters, sounds, sight words (all 18), numbers, counting, shapes, days of the week, and hand writing. Also, when reading each night review setting, character, main idea , and beginning, middle, end.