In my blogging world we are writing about our amazing kinder writers. And it seems from browsing the kindergarten blogs and talking with my colleagues that writing workshop looks very different in our classrooms because teachers use different programs, have access to different resources, have different beliefs about how children learn and school communities are different. One thing that we all agree upon is that writers need support, space and come to school with a variety of skills and knowledge. But what stands out is that we all love to teach writing and most of us are very excited about our kinder writing programs.  I am definitely in the LOVE category. Looking at our February writing pieces, the kinders are able to draw different shapes with ease, use class generated criteria, regularly write using many letters, apply developmental writing (pn, pgn,pengn,pngin, penguin), use environmental print (words displayed around the room), match their writing with the picture......

Our student teacher, Miss Virgin rocks! Her science unit has been very popular with the kids, especially when she brought in her collection of small rocks from England and I Spy glasses for the Kinders to explore. On Friday, the Kinders participated in sink and float experiments using objects of different shapes. We were all surprised to discover that while a paperclip sank a huge grapefruit floated. Jake decided it was because the grapefruit had hollow spaces inside just like a birds bones. Dulcie decided that the rock sank because it was solid just like a penguins bones. Great connections to our polar region study!!...