The kindergarten students have been very busy learning different reading strategies in their classrooms and also in the Library. Even though they missed a week of Library due to the ISAT testing, the students demonstrated just how eager they are to show what they know.
In the last few weeks of February, the students had been reading various books written by Dr. Seuss in order to prepare for his birthday, which they celebrated in their classrooms. In the Library, we learned about how to summarize the text by describing the events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of the stories. This supplemented the lessons the students were learning in their regular classrooms.. All this culminated in the final activity where we read Green Eggs and Ham and we completed a worksheet where the students identified the title and the author. They also wrote down the characters and described the problem and the solution. After the ISAT, the students finished the activity by drawing and writing descriptions of the beginning, middle, and end of the stories.
Just for fun, we stayed on the carpet and used clipboards instead of sitting at our regular seats. The students enjoyed the novelty of the experience and worked so hard, they didn’t even talk to their neighbors even though they were bumping elbows!
I’m very proud of how hard the kindergarten classes worked this week.
Chappell Library 