Kindergarten, Reading, Week 16

Monday through Thursday we read from our textbook.

• Ask questions using the Four Levels of Questioning and Comprehension.
• The genres were:
• biography
• poem
• here we also found the rhyming words and wrote another verse to the poem
• fiction

Friday we did an activity from Games for Reading.

• Blindfold Drawing -- this gives your child (and you) a unique visual experience, by mentally picturing the item to draw, your child is training her ability to recall visual images of all sorts -- such as words.
• Rules:
1. The person who draws is blindfolded. If your child doesn't enjoy being blindfolded, they they must close their eyes.
2. The person who draws never lets his pencil leave the paper.
• The drawings don't come out good, but they are funny.
• First I asked K. what I should draw. She said a tree with apples and someone picking the apples and a . . .
• Whoa, just one item. I'll do the tree with apples.
• I tied the blindfold on me, picked up the pencil and drew. We chuckled a bit after I took the blindfold off.
• Then it was K.'s turn. She decided to draw a flower.
• I turn over our construction paper, tied the blindfold on her.
• I said, now think of what the flower looks like before you draw. She had a hard time not picking the pencil up.
• We went back and forth a few times. I added a person and a squirrel to my side of the drawing. K. added a bird and the sun to her side.