Writing Centre

While cruising kindergarten blogs I discovered a great activity that has been added to our writing centre.  It is also an activity that can be done easily at home.  We have been looking through old magazines and cutting out pictures that catch our eye.  Next, we write a sentence to describe or tell about the picture.  Some students are even creating their own "stories" about the picture.  It is an activity that can tell you so much about your child's literacy development.   Some children are writing word wall words and using "stretchy the word snake" (ask your child about stretching out words).  Other children are writing random letters, and in doing so are demonstrating that they know that letters represent the meaning and the message and that we write left to right.  Oh, the little things kids do can show us so much!!